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My guess is that the majority of complaints Amazon gets about hyphenation in ebooks are due to poorly converted ebooks, where line-breaking hyphens from a print
by _delirium 12y ago
My guess is that the majority of complaints Amazon gets about hyphenation in ebooks are due to poorly converted ebooks, where line-breaking hyphens from a print-formatted source file have accidentally made their way into the ebook. Amazon support is generally not set up spend more than 5 seconds looking at your email, so I surmise that they've filed it into the "yeah fix your ebook hyphens" category and are not reading carefully enough to realize that they've misfiled it.
- moomin 12y agoYet somehow they didn't pull A Dance With Dragons, which had appalling hyphenation in the original release.
- Luc 12y agoYou're blaming them for giving different treatment to an author who's at least a million times more important to their business?
- cantankerous 12y agoYes. That's probably why he's beating up on Amazon....because they're picking on the little guys while ignoring the big ones.
- Luc 12y agoNice combattive metaphors, but this is just too silly to engage with. EDIT: Downvotes, but I'm sorry, I don't WANT to explain how it makes sense to expend more time and money on customers and suppliers that are a _million_ times more valuable to one's business.
- Dylan16807 12y agoI would expect more scrutiny of blatant formatting mistakes in a high profile release.
- jeffbr13 12y agoOr, in the time-constrained-support-worker model, a high profile release just means that they trust the publisher's quality control, and won't flag it for review as quickly as self-published content (which is highly variable in quality). It's a poor QC process, not a stylistic or editorial review.