On 2/24/2010 12:37 PM, cmiske@ashzfall.com wrote: [snip]
The more I think about it, the more I feel that it would actually be rather nice to see something along the lines of the 'roundless experiment' produce decent quality 'first release' books and then have people nitpick them to 'perfection' later. The point would be the format of storage so that the rough version could be compared to the original scans and corrections/updates be done with ease. Also, if a book is backlogged at DP, it would make sense to have a method for someone outside of DP to adopt the book and finish it.
I agree with you completely, and what you have described is what bowerbird has been agitating for for many years now. A book would go into 'first release' when the number of changes in the roundless system dropped below a certain rate. It would then go into general distribution in a system that allowed "continuous proofreading" in a wiki-like system Good luck in convincing either DP or PG to adopt these kind of reforms.