06-20-2004, 12:24 AM
It's helpful to have access to your expertise, Robert!<br>
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Yes, it certainly important to note such errors. On one level, I can sympathize with the poor authors/ publishers, since, being an author/ publisher myself, I know it's hard... and I mean HARD to produce a work that is error-free. What annoys me is when they KNOW that an error is made and don't take the effort to correct it at the next practicable opportunity. My company has been using the latest print-on-demand technology so that we could do frequent revisions if we needed to... (and yes, we've needed to...) But I just can't understand it when a publisher won't fix errors once they know about them. (Incidently, one of the main reasons why I got into the business in the first place was because the publisher of my school's Latin program didn't seem to be making any effort to improve or upgrade their products.)<br>
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Well, anyway, I'm getting off-topic, here. Back to the MacDowall books, are you familiar with his one on the Germanic Warrior and the one on the late Roman cavalryman? What critiques do you have of them?<br>
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Aaron <p></p><i></i>
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Yes, it certainly important to note such errors. On one level, I can sympathize with the poor authors/ publishers, since, being an author/ publisher myself, I know it's hard... and I mean HARD to produce a work that is error-free. What annoys me is when they KNOW that an error is made and don't take the effort to correct it at the next practicable opportunity. My company has been using the latest print-on-demand technology so that we could do frequent revisions if we needed to... (and yes, we've needed to...) But I just can't understand it when a publisher won't fix errors once they know about them. (Incidently, one of the main reasons why I got into the business in the first place was because the publisher of my school's Latin program didn't seem to be making any effort to improve or upgrade their products.)<br>
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Well, anyway, I'm getting off-topic, here. Back to the MacDowall books, are you familiar with his one on the Germanic Warrior and the one on the late Roman cavalryman? What critiques do you have of them?<br>
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Aaron <p></p><i></i>
