[bksvol-discuss] Re: Fiction By Best Selling Author & See Long Synopsis
- From: Guido Corona <guidoc@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 12:02:43 -0500
Kelly, after two years I am still seeing:
Christian Romance.
It's all in the title.
And other such irritating and useless description. What is even more
bothersome is some of the volunteers in question have been on this list
for quite a spell and by now should be able to create meaningful short
summaries. So, I fear that the only way to encourage all volunteers to
respect the needs of PAYING subscribers is to NUKE postings with
meaningless synopsis.
But, if you have a better suggestion, please table it.
G.
Guido D. Corona
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"Kellie Hartmann" <kellhart@xxxxxxxxxx>
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[bksvol-discuss] Re: Fiction By Best Selling Author & See Long Synopsis
Guido my friend,
You're ranting. <grin> I agree with you in principle, but it doesn't make
sense to reject a book for lack of a synopsis. Coming up with a coherent
short synopsis that is sufficiently short isn't always easy and can take
some time. One thing that would really help would be if the web site were
fixed to only allow 250 characters in that edit field. That way the book
wouldn't have to be uploaded several times because of the stupid error
about
the synopsis being too long. I can imagine trying to write one three times
and finally giving up in disgust. I've certainly had to write them three
times before. I know I could use Word's wordcount feature, but that's such
a
production...
Kellie
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