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 *** 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'). ****