Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!news-1.dfn.de!news.dfn.de!news.informatik.hu-berlin.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "Lanto J." Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,comp.misc Subject: Re: ebooks Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 12:01:06 +1100 Lines: 49 Message-ID: References: <20140324150738.5356ce46db117f1d68f9734f@eircom.net> <533067cd$0$17082$c3e8da3$dd9697d2@news.astraweb.com> <5330744D.23831713@bytecraft.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="utf-8"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net SZTVZYGWNex+0kstMS0KDwuVgNgDziCmY0eOg+6af67isXsaA= Cancel-Lock: sha1:n9gPdvhNLkDl/KLyN1PyzljT9go= In-Reply-To: X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Importance: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Windows Live Mail 14.0.8117.416 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V14.0.8117.416 Xref: csiph.com comp.misc:2005 "Lewis" wrote in message news:slrnlj456r.17j7.g.kreme@amelia.local... > In message > Lanto J. wrote: > > >> "Lewis" wrote in message >> news:slrnlj1hqn.o7c.g.kreme@amelia.local... >>> In message >>> Lanto J. wrote: >>> >>> >>>> "Osmium" wrote in message >>>> news:bpbbq6FgmrkU1@mid.individual.net... >>>>> >>>>> "Walter Banks" wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Publishers also provide editing services that puts authors works >>>>>> in a form that can be understood by the intended audience in the >>>>>> expected context. That is a skill set that very few authors have >>>>>> (even very good ones). Editors also rarely make good authors. >>>>> >>>>> I think the last three editors in the world work for _The New Yorker_. >>>>> Everything else seems to be kbd -> word processor -> spell checker -> >>>>> consumer. >>> >>>> No, that is not the case with people like JK Rowling and >>>> we know that because she has said so very explicitly. >>> >>> You do not need publishers to have editors. > >> Didn’t say you did. I just said that her work isn't kbd -> >> word processor -> spell checker -> consumer. > I suspect very few books fit that pattern. Yeah, I do too, if only getting someone else they know who isnt a professional editor to at least proof read it. Maybe the Twilight > fan-fiction porn series (I forget the title, something about the color > grey), or maybe Twilight itself, but both of those are barely literate > writing, so I wouldn't be at all surprised to discover they were > "written" by a somewhat advanced perl script. Bet they weren't.