On 10/12/2011 07:23 PM, David Starner wrote:
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 5:50 AM, Marcello Perathoner <marcello@perathoner.de> wrote:
The PG website lists the most downloaded books first. If people don't download your `better proofed, better illustrated´ version, then there is something wrong with it.
So you're saying that people download both versions, compare them, and then redownload the better version?
Compare them and share a link to the version that worked.
The lesson here is: the crazy formatting of DP acts like DRM. It prevents those books from working on many devices. And people only post links to books that actually worked for them.
Or people post links to the books that existed when they created the link. Or they post a link to the first version that came up on the PG search.
There's nothing we can do about that or can we go and change other people's links? What do you propose here? Should PG stop offering the "most popular" category just because the most popular books were not produced by David Starner? Every new book gets a tremendous boost, being posted on Facebook, Twitter and the "recent" RSS feed at PG. Also there is a "recent" category that people can select while searching. If your new book can't overcome some older edition in spite of that big boost, then obviously there's something wrong with it. -- Marcello Perathoner webmaster@gutenberg.org