![]() It began with an astute, passionate editor and publisher named Megan Tingley, who read the manuscript on an airplane, and made a pre-emptive three-book deal. At Hachette, I've had a peripheral view of the Twilight phenomenon. Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin's Three Cups of Tea, for example, has been sustained by a dynamic author and a multi-year speaking tour, and the hit Twilight series has greatly benefited from Stephenie Meyer's extensive online promotional efforts. Yet they are underutilized in the publishing process. ".authors usually write the best promotional copy (they're writers, after all), and they certainly know their readership best. That's where sales and marketing experience is most useful and why those executives should be assigned to specific titles at the outset. The most important decisions we make are at the acquisition and positioning stages. The author, and the book, matter most, followed by the media, booksellers and readers. We all like to believe we are essential to a book's success, but the truth is, we are a marginal factor. Titles launched with a battalion of support go straight to the remainder bins. Books only the editor has read become bestsellers. "For a long time, I assumed publishing companies needed sales and marketing executives in generalist positions to focus the priorities of the house, but that's just more Kabuki. ~ Bryan Rosner, from E-Books: Not So Fast! (Independent Book Publishers of America) If e-books are sold more than printed books, the publishers’ added value may seem irrelevant." "The process of converting a Microsoft Word document into a PDF file for download is much simpler (or at least, perceived to be much simpler) than the process of engaging the services of an offset printer and dealing with all those thousands of books that come off the press. If you’re publishing e-books, authors may decide they don’t need you. Although editing and graphic design are important, the major area in which you add value involves your knowledge of, and access to, printing and distribution resources. The reason you make money as a publisher is that authors believe your participation adds value. Here are a few that face publishers who adopt e-books as their primary format. I believe they pose threats to profitability for most book publishers. That would fix a lot of errors."I am not at all excited about e-books. ![]() The setup process creates a new database and reimports the sideloaded books. ![]() If it meant the device restarted and redid the setup, then that would suggest a corrupt database. The latter will happen if you are using the extended driver to send books as kepubs. Issues with individual books are usually because or DRM or errors in the book. To fix that, you usually need to log out of the Kobo account on the device, or restore a backup of the database. The next most common is a corrupt database on the device. Was it during the initial connect, when updating metadata or sending a book?įor a Kobo device, the most common reason is a that the firmware has been updated but the calibre version hasn't been updated to match. And it depends on when the error happened. The "error communicating with device" is a fairly generic error, and the detail will tell more about what is happening. If so, it would help to know what was going on if you had posted the error message you saw. I'm not sure if that is a practical solution Or are you asking for help to know what happened to fix things? Effectively you have said to get the IT gods to corrupt a book and things will be fixed when you try to open it. Sorry, I don't see a solution in your post.
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