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Its crazy to me how little effort publishers put into the basic parts of their job sometimes. Its even funnier that raymond chen of all people is the one callin
by 20k 4mo ago
Its crazy to me how little effort publishers put into the basic parts of their job sometimes. Its even funnier that raymond chen of all people is the one calling this out
- defrost 4mo agoOn the matter of book back text, The Profit by Kehlog Albran has a rear blurb that likens the style of the author to that of a man with a much larger brain.
- Bolwin 4mo agoAlso is this an official Microsoft dev blog? Probably not a good look back at publishing hq
- windward 4mo agoIt is, and it's a famous and popular blog too. Lots of older submissions have been highly upvoted here.
- mcherm 4mo agoIf you don't want to be called out for putting zero effort into the books that you publish, you probably shouldn't put zero effort into the books you publish!
- ryandrake 4mo agoAlso, if you want to keep your job designing the book covers! Effort-free stock image on the front cover, generic copy-paste description on the back cover. Hard to tell if whoever was responsible for the cover design is worried about his job being replaced with AI, because if he is, he has an odd way of showing it.
- netsharc 4mo agoAlso crazy to me: how some people can't bother to capitalize names or use punctuation. Considering the book's title is almost identical to Bjarne Stroustrup's book, it smells like an attempt to profit by confusing buyers.