On 10/21/2011 01:26 AM, Karen Lofstrom wrote:
PPers as well as proofers work on the sorts of books that they enjoy, or feel competent to do.
Ain't it the job of DP to increase proofers competence? Offer some training? Get them interested in new topics? Aren't the proofers interested in actually *learning* something? Yours is only half of the story, the second half. The first half is: Over the years, DP has actively steered people away that were interested in serious literature. With all that obsession about page counts and facsimile-formatting. Also chick lit is using up the processing power and bandwidth that people need to work on serious literature. In consequence people interested in serious literature, whose work stuck for years in the queue, left in disgust. It is not that "volunteers" in general are interested in chick lit. It is that most volunteers interested in serious literature have left. That's the grave you dug, now go lay in it. -- Marcello Perathoner webmaster@gutenberg.org