On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 19:58:15 -0600, Jeff Vorzimmer
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jvorzimmer@austin.rr.com> wrote:
> > Current reading: Frederic Brown's MURDER CAN BE
FUN, which is noirish
> > at times, although Brown's sense of humor
sometimes disrupts the
> > mood. Not that I'm complaining, since it's a
very entertaining
> > read. I am reading the Blackmask Online POD
edition, and while I
> > applaud the fact that they've made it available
again I have to say
> > the number of typos is astounding (averaging 1
every other page).
>
> I've had the same experience. Typos to the point of
being almost
> unreadable.
> This guy runs OCR software and then doesn't correct
the text.
Oh, really? Didn't know that. Must be why all the page breaks
are still there.
I confess I may have been too cocky in the past, as folks
like Wildside Press, and, umm, Jeff Vorzimmer, have been
known to just grab texts from me and print/resell them. Some
of the ones I did that ended up on Wildside (say, the Dr.
Nikola series in its entirety and tons of Walter Scott whose
source-texts weren't Gutenberg compiant) are among that
firm's bestsellers, so I perhaps assumed they were in better
condition. Neither Jeff nor Wildside spent any additional
time editing, as far as I can tell, but of course they also
didn't issue a thank you.
Now I know why.
I suspect my titles have improved with time, (Fast One, in
particular, I made any number of corrections too, but after a
sever move the original version somehow ended up in the wrong
place... apologies I have a lot of files on my server), and
of course, I've been gradually acclimating to things like
'50s Gold Medals (just try finding a firm in East Asia or
Panama that can handle the scanning of a Gold Medal original,
let alone OCR).
Refunds are always available, and if I'm really so terrible,
umm, Blackmask isn't my largest revenue source anymore, nor
has it been for a year and a half now, so, while there may be
a distribution deal with a fairly large house in the future,
there might not, and, cheers.
Oh, and Tim O'Brien's best book, by far, was Going After
Cacciato... I found Lake of the Woods tedious.
-- David Moynihan Disruptive Publishing http://www.blackmask.com http://www.olympiapress.com http://www.silkpagoda.com (forthcoming)
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