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yeah, hurting sales is the best way to make the author accountable, where did vote with your wallet went here? he can at any time publish a revision and be don

yeah, hurting sales is the best way to make the author accountable, where did vote with your wallet went here? he can at any time publish a revision and be done with it

mcphage 7y ago
> he can at any time publish a revision and be done with it How can you revise things that aren’t mistakes?
- LoSboccacc 7y ago
  funny you say that because revising is exactly what he did, so somehow he managed to get off his horse and push the uncommon vernacular out of the text are we better for it? probably not, but then again he's not forced to publish it into the low cost mass market, and knowing what the audience wants is basically his job description so...
  - knolax 7y ago
    > get off his horse and push the uncommon vernacular out of the text Is using slang pretentious now?
    - LoSboccacc 7y ago
      no, but believing one own English to be universal and above scrutiny most definitely is
      - true_religion 7y ago
        It’s not above scrutiny, but it’s his choice to use it and it isn’t a definitively incorrect choice. A typo is not that. A typo is when one mistakenly spells something incorrectly, or incorrectly adds or removes a word to make sentence ungrammatical. If it was intentional, then it’s author fiat. You don’t have to like it, but that’s no excuse for removing a book from a store. To note, if Amazon themselves say they have an issue with his language, that’s their prerogative, but right now it just looks like abuse of their reporting system.
        LoSboccacc 7y ago
        as an aside I honestly doubt Amazon acted on a single word being flagged, because that level of scrutiny would be hurting its bottom line, but we only have one side of the story so we have to act upon that alone, still. anyway, that's the difference between authorship and artistry, the fact that he caved show which side he's on. Amazon only obligation is with their customers and he's free to pursue less mainstream options if he wants uncompromised freedom
        mcphage 7y ago
        You: > so somehow he managed to get off his horse Also you: > that's the difference between authorship and artistry, the fact that he caved show which side he's on
        LoSboccacc 7y ago
        and? there are no laws that forbid grandstanding and loving money. Moreover those are his actions, the contradiction, or better yet hypocrisy, is on him. of course a description of the events would and should contain more of the same, since he's all barks but no bites to his feeding hand.
  - hamsterOnWheel 7y ago
    >push the uncommon vernacular out of the text You're entirely comfortable with only being able to publish the lowest common denominator of things which will be comprehensible to everyone, at the risk of being automatically pulled from publication if an author steps too far from a style that's perfectly clear to the reader?
    - LoSboccacc 7y ago
      never said that. what I said is that Amazon is mass market quality and know thy audience. if one wants to pursue artistry it's fine, but it's a different set of rules with a different product marketability

yeah, hurting sales is the best way to make the author accountable, where did vote with your wallet went here? he can at any time publish a revision and be done with it

mcphage 7y ago

> he can at any time publish a revision and be done with it How can you revise things that aren’t mistakes?

LoSboccacc 7y ago
funny you say that because revising is exactly what he did, so somehow he managed to get off his horse and push the uncommon vernacular out of the text are we better for it? probably not, but then again he's not forced to publish it into the low cost mass market, and knowing what the audience wants is basically his job description so...
- knolax 7y ago
  > get off his horse and push the uncommon vernacular out of the text Is using slang pretentious now?
  - LoSboccacc 7y ago
    no, but believing one own English to be universal and above scrutiny most definitely is
    - true_religion 7y ago
      It’s not above scrutiny, but it’s his choice to use it and it isn’t a definitively incorrect choice. A typo is not that. A typo is when one mistakenly spells something incorrectly, or incorrectly adds or removes a word to make sentence ungrammatical. If it was intentional, then it’s author fiat. You don’t have to like it, but that’s no excuse for removing a book from a store. To note, if Amazon themselves say they have an issue with his language, that’s their prerogative, but right now it just looks like abuse of their reporting system.
      - LoSboccacc 7y ago
        as an aside I honestly doubt Amazon acted on a single word being flagged, because that level of scrutiny would be hurting its bottom line, but we only have one side of the story so we have to act upon that alone, still. anyway, that's the difference between authorship and artistry, the fact that he caved show which side he's on. Amazon only obligation is with their customers and he's free to pursue less mainstream options if he wants uncompromised freedom
        mcphage 7y ago
        You: > so somehow he managed to get off his horse Also you: > that's the difference between authorship and artistry, the fact that he caved show which side he's on
        LoSboccacc 7y ago
        and? there are no laws that forbid grandstanding and loving money. Moreover those are his actions, the contradiction, or better yet hypocrisy, is on him. of course a description of the events would and should contain more of the same, since he's all barks but no bites to his feeding hand.
- hamsterOnWheel 7y ago
  >push the uncommon vernacular out of the text You're entirely comfortable with only being able to publish the lowest common denominator of things which will be comprehensible to everyone, at the risk of being automatically pulled from publication if an author steps too far from a style that's perfectly clear to the reader?
  - LoSboccacc 7y ago
    never said that. what I said is that Amazon is mass market quality and know thy audience. if one wants to pursue artistry it's fine, but it's a different set of rules with a different product marketability