http://paidcontent.org/2012/09/27/j-k-rowlings-new-book-on-kindle-literally-unreadable/ The economics of digital content Mon, 20 May 2013 23:21:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://paidcontent.org/2012/09/27/j-k-rowlings-new-book-on-kindle-literally-unreadable/#comment-171608 Wed, 14 Nov 2012 07:05:39 +0000 http://paidcontent.org/?p=218367#comment-171608 Our software updates and syncs all books so that you can change them forever….even into a different language :) Just saying.

]]> http://paidcontent.org/2012/09/27/j-k-rowlings-new-book-on-kindle-literally-unreadable/#comment-160363 Wed, 03 Oct 2012 15:42:47 +0000 http://paidcontent.org/?p=218367#comment-160363 ^—Haha I like the difference between the two posts. I’m guessing you thought the first one didn’t register.

]]> http://paidcontent.org/2012/09/27/j-k-rowlings-new-book-on-kindle-literally-unreadable/#comment-159642 Sun, 30 Sep 2012 23:00:40 +0000 http://paidcontent.org/?p=218367#comment-159642 Bet JK Rowling isn’t pleased.

]]> http://paidcontent.org/2012/09/27/j-k-rowlings-new-book-on-kindle-literally-unreadable/#comment-159080 Sat, 29 Sep 2012 01:25:26 +0000 http://paidcontent.org/?p=218367#comment-159080 How, precisely, is it Amazon’s fault that the file was improperly formatted on the Barnes and Noble Nook and other competing readers?

]]> http://paidcontent.org/2012/09/27/j-k-rowlings-new-book-on-kindle-literally-unreadable/#comment-159055 Sat, 29 Sep 2012 00:17:08 +0000 http://paidcontent.org/?p=218367#comment-159055 Seldom have i read a more misleading headline than this one here. J.K. ROWLINGS NEW BOOK LITERALLY UNRTEADABLE.

]]> http://paidcontent.org/2012/09/27/j-k-rowlings-new-book-on-kindle-literally-unreadable/#comment-158882 Fri, 28 Sep 2012 18:36:55 +0000 http://paidcontent.org/?p=218367#comment-158882 I have to wonder what options Hachette selected to create those errors. I work with ebooks, and I have absolutely no idea how to create any kind of similar errors.

]]> http://paidcontent.org/2012/09/27/j-k-rowlings-new-book-on-kindle-literally-unreadable/#comment-158667 Fri, 28 Sep 2012 13:33:33 +0000 http://paidcontent.org/?p=218367#comment-158667 If they had uploaded through Smashwords, our human vetting team would have alerted Hachette to the problem *before* the book reached retailers. Every week, we help hundreds of authors and publishers avoid such embarrassment. We run every book through two layers of QA: AutoVetter does automated checking of common formatting errors, and then our human vetting team manually inspects each book.

]]> http://paidcontent.org/2012/09/27/j-k-rowlings-new-book-on-kindle-literally-unreadable/#comment-158599 Fri, 28 Sep 2012 12:02:10 +0000 http://paidcontent.org/?p=218367#comment-158599 Doesn’t just happen to indies then!

]]> http://paidcontent.org/2012/09/27/j-k-rowlings-new-book-on-kindle-literally-unreadable/#comment-158552 Fri, 28 Sep 2012 10:38:54 +0000 http://paidcontent.org/?p=218367#comment-158552 Great tip, Dawn, thanks! Kindle owners should also see “updated file” this morning for this title (see post update, above).

]]> http://paidcontent.org/2012/09/27/j-k-rowlings-new-book-on-kindle-literally-unreadable/#comment-158273 Thu, 27 Sep 2012 23:23:27 +0000 http://paidcontent.org/?p=218367#comment-158273 From a Twitter friend: “Anyone having font issues with The Casual Vacancy on Nook: you can get updated file by archiving, re-DLing, and unarchiving.”

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