The Last Dark ARC is here!!
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Why would an author like SRD need to send out arc's anyway. It's not like anyone is going to start reading the Chrons with the Last Dark. (If they do I think they're going to have a fair problem getting to grips with it.) So I don't much see the point in it. Those who are Chrons readers are not going to be much swayed (into reading it or not) by a review anyway.
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'Then let it end.'
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The ARCs are for the purpose of Reveiwing it (And possibly cause last minute edits from feedback?)peter wrote:Why would an author like SRD need to send out arc's anyway. It's not like anyone is going to start reading the Chrons with the Last Dark. (If they do I think they're going to have a fair problem getting to grips with it.) So I don't much see the point in it. Those who are Chrons readers are not going to be much swayed (into reading it or not) by a review anyway.
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It's about learning to dance in the rain
Where are we going...and... WHY are we in a handbasket?
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Definitely major point is in the publicity/marketing...sindatur wrote:The ARCs are for the purpose of Reveiwing it (And possibly cause last minute edits from feedback?)peter wrote:Why would an author like SRD need to send out arc's anyway. It's not like anyone is going to start reading the Chrons with the Last Dark. (If they do I think they're going to have a fair problem getting to grips with it.) So I don't much see the point in it. Those who are Chrons readers are not going to be much swayed (into reading it or not) by a review anyway.
I haven't paid attention to them in a while, since digital became really big,
but ARC's USED to be pretty expensive to put together.
And, [p's bold "question"]it was a thing on the PUBLISHER's side, not the authors. So it's not "why would SRD," but "why would GOLLANZ [spelling?]"...and I have to say it does seem unlikely to do much in the sales/hype 30 years and 10th [last] book on in the process.
[spoiler]Sig-man, Libtard, Stupid piece of shit. change your text color to brown. Mr. Reliable, bullshit-slinging liarFucker-user.[/spoiler]
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the hyperbole is a beauty...for we are then allowed to say a little more than the truth...and language is more efficient when it goes beyond reality than when it stops short of it.
the difference between evidence and sources: whether they come from the horse's mouth or a horse's ass.
"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
the hyperbole is a beauty...for we are then allowed to say a little more than the truth...and language is more efficient when it goes beyond reality than when it stops short of it.
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Agreed. I am giving no content away to say that the ARC I read had a number of places where the kerning of the text was not at all well done.
For those not conversant in typography, this is not an SRD issue. This has solely to do with the typesetting of the text of the ARC by the publisher. Having never read an ARC before and never seeing character and word spacing so poorly handled in a professionally published tome, I am confident that this is an ARC-only issue and the volumes offered for sale will be correctly kerned.
Thus ends my editorial rant on the ARC.
For those not conversant in typography, this is not an SRD issue. This has solely to do with the typesetting of the text of the ARC by the publisher. Having never read an ARC before and never seeing character and word spacing so poorly handled in a professionally published tome, I am confident that this is an ARC-only issue and the volumes offered for sale will be correctly kerned.
Thus ends my editorial rant on the ARC.
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Obviously not, but there are many more ways of letting people know that a work is on the way out than sending a few poorly edited copies out into the public domeain where no controll over the response can be made and a good portion just finish up being sold on e-bay anyway. How about a few good posters in bookshops, papers and rail terminals for starters.I'm Murrin wrote:It's a publisher thing, it's just a standard part of promoting a book.
And as far as it being last in a series... what do you think they should do, promote the book that came out 36 years ago instead of the one that's new?
Yes, I should have phrased my question better - I didn't mean it so much as SRD having the say on this as whyan auther like SRD (in terms of where he is with this book) would need to have ARC's sent out by his publishers. It just seems futile to me - and quite possibly does more harm than good. The only reviewers whose views I have the slightest interest in are my peers here on the Watch, and not the one of them has the power to stop (or make) me buying and reading the final book in a series spanning the whole of my adult life, no matter what those views.
Song of the year. Judy Raindrop. Everyone is a cunt except me.
....and the glory of the world becomes less than it was....
'Have we not served you well'
'Of course - you know you have.'
'Then let it end.'
We are the Bloodguard
....and the glory of the world becomes less than it was....
'Have we not served you well'
'Of course - you know you have.'
'Then let it end.'
We are the Bloodguard
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Icertainlyhopetheyfixthetypesettingintheplaceswhereanentiresentenceiscrammedtogetherwithnospaces!
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*nod*Savor Dam wrote:Icertainlyhopetheyfixthetypesettingintheplaceswhereanentiresentenceiscrammedtogetherwithnospaces!
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And there are definitely skipped words in places. Obvious mistakes grammatically that I know SRD wouldn't make. If SRD needs to argue to have these changes fixed, I don't envy him in the least.muffin wrote:(you couldn't add a word if it bumped text onto a new page somewhere, for example).