Dear Santa Coker,Two days before Christmas, and all through the net, I'm asking for an improved publishing page, one I hope to get!Uploading to Meatgrinder sometimes works well, but one little format issue, it will process like horrible hell. Such a large file, all messed up and sick, will sometimes get downloaded by fans who find me too quick! Sometimes within minutes the file is quickly sold, meatgrinder politely telling me my file is less than gold. How about a layer to load, check and peer, then when vetted and approved, the file is available without fear! I'm not trying to make new options or waiting for a choice, there are some of us who would wait for approval first, so please hear my voice. Thank You, Santa Coker, for all that you do. I wish a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year just for you!----Ok, now you know why I don't write poetry. I'm not that good at it. Last year, I uploaded a file in .doc and I thought it was a good clean file. Well, it wasn't and I had to nuke in. In the few hours that took, some of my few, but loyal fans, quickly downloaded the broken file and emailed me their panicked concern that me or my computer had a stroke. While it probably won't affect many, and this may seem rare, I am concerned that the one customer with great word of mouth could get a broken file before it's fixed. If not me, perhaps another author could suffer that fate. I'd like the ability to see what meatgrinder said first, and check to epub status, and re-upload so I have only one file listed when it gets approved for Premium status. If you let us vet our own work before making the page available to all, it might cut down the process time for your vetting team as well, since we can make a cleaner transition with a "submit now" button 'before' the main sales page is available. And make it an optional feature, so those who know their meatgrinder savvy files will go through the first time won't have to make an extra step. Thanks Mark!
@magicvsscience, brilliant poem!Yes, we could benefit from a staging system or sandbox because the book goes for sale almost instantly.Since we don't yet have such a sandbox option, here's a functional equivalent... Meatgrinder's conversions occur almost instantly, while you watch. The moment the conversion completes, you can click to your Dashboard and click Unpublish, and then immediately open and inspect the .epub file.There's usually a lag of anywhere from one to two minutes before a converted book appears on the home page.If you make corrections, click "upload new version" then rinse and repeat until satisfied.The downside of this is that you're likely to miss out on your 30 minutes of home page fame as you iterate.
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I think the Smashwords app is a good idea -- many people want the convenience of downloading and reading immediately and not sideloading. I am personally bewildered by this, but that's the way it is.Smashwords needs a site comparable to KindleBoards.com to aid in discussion and discovery of books and directing readers to the Smashwords purchase page. Smashwords is treated as a "by the way" by Kindleboards and many other book boards -- this would help give Smashwords significantly higher visibility.I would still like HTML downloads for purchases (because it is an easy, universal format). As a Linux user, FBReader has made using epub and mobi much easier in the past couple of years.
I too would have preferred to upload in epub format. When I exported my files to epub myself they came out exactly as I wanted them to. I even went to the trouble of downloading a trial of Micosoft Word, which opened my files perfectly. Yes, I have to admit that, and I've hated Word ever since the fiasco of Word 6. So I saved my files as Word docs, as directed, and uploaded them. But Meatgrinder made a mess of them. Yes, I got my books into the Premium catalog, but I still consider them a mess!
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Romance: When you have a hero and heroine who meet, with sparks flying, then internal and external conflicts keep them apart despite their mutual attraction until the end of the book when a happy ever after ensues, you know you are talking about the largest genre in fiction by far: romance. More than 50 percent of mass market [pocket size paperbacks] fiction sales in the United States each year are genre romance. The biggest trend in genre romance lately is paranormal romance, but there are also contemporary, historical, comedies, romantic suspense, inspirational and erotic subgenres.
Back at home with some Albanian friends, we sat listening to the gunfire and occasional explosions. A red glow appeared at our window. We looked out to see sparks and flames spurting into the air nearby. We realized it was the Serbian church at the top of our street, aflame. There was an awful sound: a bell ringing incessantly.
Many commentators have therefore reasonably concluded that the obvious answer is further regulation, to ban CDSs and rely on legislation to tame the industry. The problem with this analysis, however, so tempting in these turbid days, is that it rests on an assumption about the legislative process that is perilous indeed: that legislators act upon the interests of voters, and no one else. The law in question, the Commodity Futures Modernization Act, was passed in 2000 by a Democratic administration; it was proposed by the Clinton administration and passed quickly through both Houses. Not one member of Congress raised objections to this particular provision, which was secreted away in a bill of many hundreds of pages. Needless to say, that year the financial services industry, which strongly supported the bill, contributed large amounts to both Democrats and Republicans.
During the Spanish Civil War, more than thirty thousand people from over fifty nations volunteered to fight the Nationalist armies of General Franco. Many gave up jobs and left families in order to fight the emerging global threat of fascism, and to defend a nascent socialist, even anarchist republic.
Though it is rarely mentioned, even in the histories of that period, the Spanish civil war saw a moment, tragically brief, of real existing anarchism. In the area of Spain under Republican control, anarchists for a short while held sway, as far as that term means anything when no one was completely in charge. This was not anarchy, an absence of order, it was a society that for a period decided to govern itself not by centralized authority, but by the wishes of local communities, workers, men and women, led by values of equality and mutual respect.
This technique too has modern relevance. The hunger strikes by Republican inmates in the Maze prison in Northern Ireland in 1981 resulted in the deaths of several strikers, most famously Bobby Sands, who was elected as a member of the British Parliament during his hunger strike. After ten inmates died, the British government offered some concessions. The most lasting impact, however, was, like the Salt Satyagraha, deeper in its effects on that intangible: will. By 1985, the British government, had negotiated the Anglo-Irish agreement that gave the Irish Republic for the first time a consultative role in the government of Northern Ireland, and heralded the peace process that resulted in the Good Friday agreement of 1998, which largely brought an end, though sadly not yet final, to the violence and sectarian strife that had benighted the province for over thirty years.
In Marxist theory, the proletariat should eventually be freed of all burdens, including of government. But in practice, all communist systems rapidly established and maintained huge bureaucracies, with their privileged elites, to instruct the people on their best interests. Never were they to be asked what these might be. Those who offered a dissenting voice were repressed, often with great cruelty. In suppressing the anarchists of the Spanish republic, or the Bolsheviks of the Kronstadt rebellion in 1921, the Communists showed their true colors. Communism could never mean freedom from authority. That revolution would never be permitted. The people were not to be trusted.
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