On 02/01/2012 06:54 AM, don kretz wrote:
They're going through another phase of RST despair right now. They aren't getting out what they thought they are putting in. Things break. But they are supposed to keep trying to make the system happy. They know the system isn't trying to make them happy. That's not its job.
You are all right in saying that we have to please the volunteers, but you forget a much more important thing: We have to please the readers. The readers do not want pretty formattings for desktop PCs, they want books they can carry in their pockets. DP could have learnt that by comparing the sales of hardcovers vs. paperbacks. Also they could have learnt that by comparing the downloads of the `oh-so-ugly´ EPUB and Kindle formats vs. the `oh-so-pretty´ HTML format. The `ugly´ formats are already more popular than HTML just a few years after they have been introduced at PG. But DP's agenda deliberately pushes people to produce the product nobody wants, because an elaborately formatted but non-functional book gives more DP bragging rights than a simply formatted and functional book. People are unsatisfied with RST because they are brainwashed into thinking that a simply formatted book is not good enough. It's not RST's fault, it's DP's fault. -- Marcello Perathoner webmaster@gutenberg.org