Comments on: War and Nookd

By: Oops! (no, it wasn’t us) « The Word Nerds

Oops! (no, it wasn’t us) « The Word Nerds — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 11:22:07 +0000

[...] Nookd in a carved and painted lantern.” Further investigation by Jonathan Zittrain’s Future of the Internet site discovered that Superior Formatting had performed a global find-and-replace on the popular [...]

By: Barbara

Barbara — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 18:14:33 +0000

The Internet is certainly not to blame for any editor (or perhaps editorial assistant) misusing the Search and Replace feature of Word. Many do not even know the appropriate uses of the hyphen versus the en dash and em dash. When I got back a manuscript some years ago, and found that there were no en or em dashes, but only “hyphens” used, albeit sometimes two in a row, I marked up the proof accordingly. I also wrote a note saying that all dashes (as opposed to hyphens) should be em dashes, etc. And also listed the instances when the en dash should be employed. I can only attribute stupidity to what I found in the next proof: only em dashes throughout the manuscript! Can you imagine seeing something like one—half, etc.

The Search and Replace feature can be very useful, but one must first ascertain whether there will be a problem to doing a total global replacement. If so, it is still useful to go from each instance it item is found to consider whether it should be replaced. It is in fact the only tool at your disposal, short of reading the entire thing over again.

By: Versão de “Guerra e Paz” do Nook Troca a Palavra “Kindled” por “Nookd” - Revolucaoebook.com.br

Fri, 08 Jun 2012 13:40:49 +0000

[...] Informações: The Future of The Internet e Gizmodo Confira [...]

By: Издатель книг для читалки Nook извинился за «цензуру» в «Войне и мире» | Actualitati.md - Stiri online Moldova

Fri, 08 Jun 2012 09:06:06 +0000

[...] 1 июня, об ошибке в романе рассказала в блоге Future of the Internet Кендра Альберт. Она же указала, [...]

By: Blog da Agência Literária » Arquivo do Blog » ‘War and Peace’ Nook Ebook Found Without Any Mention Of Word ‘Kindle’

Fri, 08 Jun 2012 01:03:18 +0000

[...] “The Superior Formatting Publishing version isn’t a Barnes [] Noble book, so this isn’t the work of a rogue Nook marketer from BN,” says Kendra Albert and Jonathan Zittrain at The Future of the Internet blog. [...]

By: Reader Reports Anti-Kindle Copy Of Nook Ebook | Latest Headlines

Reader Reports Anti-Kindle Copy Of Nook Ebook | Latest Headlines — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 00:01:42 +0000

[...] “The Superior Formatting Publishing version isn’t a Barnes [&] Noble book, so this isn’t the work of a rogue Nook marketer from B&N,” says Kendra Albert and Jonathan Zittrain at The Future of the Internet blog. [...]

By: Ereader NL » ‘Oorlog en Vrede’ onbedoeld onderdeel van vete tussen Kindle en Nook » Ereader NL

Thu, 07 Jun 2012 22:00:10 +0000

[...] is het slordige knip- en plakwerk simpelweg een domme fout. Maar sommigen vinden het een ‘alarmerende‘ gebeurtenis. “Het voordeel van dit soort klassieke werken in digitale vorm is dat [...]

By: Danuta

Danuta — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 10:37:52 +0000

One of the Kindle versions of Hitler’s Mein Kampf has universally changed ‘nation’ to ‘country’ giving words like ‘discrimicountry’ and phrases like ‘countryal identity.’ It stops you taking the ideas of the frothing maniac seriously, assuming you ever would.

By: Neuroskeptic

Neuroskeptic — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 10:31:05 +0000

$0.99 for a nook…I mean book…in the public domain?!

By: Nook edition of ‘War and Peace’ replaces every ‘Kindle’ with ‘Nook’ | Astrid Bidanec

Thu, 07 Jun 2012 10:03:50 +0000

[...] Island Journal | The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It | Hacker News At the rare moments when the old fire did Nook in her handsome, fully developed [...]