From: Jim O'Donnell <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2012 19:20:44 -0800

Forwarded from a classical friend -- the link goes to an item on
LinkedIn by one Jane Tatam, otherwise unknown to me.  In the race for
bad metadata, Google usually noses out Amazon, but this is a
distinctive performance.

Jim O'Donnell

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http://www.linkedin.com/groups/If-you-publish-make-sure-64426.S.198546325?qid=adbff03c-ed10-4d3b-836d-ea290ed57bc9&goback=%2Egmp_64426

If you publish make sure you fit the boxes!

One of my chores is uploading ebooks onto amazon. I recently uploaded
a new translation of The Satires of Juvenal translated by Richard
George. Amazon has rejected it on the grounds there is no stated
author. They also object to the author having just the one name. So
this is what I just wrote them:

Just how ridiculous can this get? The Satires of Juvenal is a Latin
classic, that means a guy called Juvenal wrote it in Latin, early in
the first century, so he doesn't have a Christian name, cos although
Christ had been around, he had not really caught on with the Romans
who crucified him. So his name was just Juvenal, all by itself, one
word.

But not acceptable, so the poor fellow will be known from now on as
None Juvenal.

It was also very kind of the cover printer to let me know I had
mis-spelt juvenale ('which should have an e on the end, dear').

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