Whoever deals with the eBooks at Simon & Schuster, specifically the CSI books, needs to be dragged out back and shot or something equally as evil. Firing the idiot is too easy. I'm reading Dark Sundays on my Kindle, and the best thing I can say is that words are in sentence form and separated by chapters.
I'm sixty pages in and have not come across a single scene break, the scenes just run into one another. It is confusing as hell, and I want to exert my anger -- but emails have gone unanswered and the person I spoke to on the phone had the IQ of a delusional zombie. I can do a better job in a fucking word document.
Seriously? Because of a slight inconvenience and your inabilty to understand something, you want to shoot dead someone! Talk about an over reaction!
Dimesdan, I am perfectly able to understand the book, but some of the scenes are so short that by the time you've figured out there has been a change, it's changed again. This "overreaction" as you put it is a culmination of the incompetence of Pocket's eBook conversion team (if they even have one) over two year's worth of books.
The scene change issue can be simply dealt with by having a line break or two added in, which anyone can do in a word document. I think I'm quite entitled to complain about a very simple fucking issue which one of the largest publishing houses on the planet cannot seem to do with any of their eBooks with any consistency. If I lived in NYC I would apply for a job at S&S and show them just how easy it is to do.
None of the other publishing houses I've bought books from (which I believe is all five of the others) has this issue. Even writers putting their own stuff up on Amazon have better formatting. It is simple to do and I'm amazed at how often S&S/Pocket screws up. Yes, I believe firing the people who do it is too easy and I'd hope they don't reproduce and allow their stupidity to get passed on another generation. There are too many idiots around already.
