Forum: Bug Report and Feature Requests

You'd absolutely want to change it on the source copy. The idea in my head isn't that you wouldn't change it on the source copy. The idea in my head is that it would save time for the readers to get those changes, and it would also be used for smaller changes like changing a word here or there.

It could also be used for small format changes. Like for instance if I've got something written that I wanted in blockquotes or colored but didn't put it in, or didn't do it right, I could very quickly change that format.

This way the changes could be done immediately rather than waiting for the admin to be able to get to them. It would also free up the admins time to focus on other things, or new submissions.

It may not be feasible, and I don't know how things work on the backend so the admins may not NEED to time freed up. Just a thought.

The overhead in creating the facility to do online editing would be more than it's worth.
As in it would take more of Laz's time to code the editor for you to use than it would for him to post updated corrected chapters for the next five years or more.

That's the part I wasn't sure about.

Now if another 100 authors were to stamp their feet and demand the facility, it might be a different matter.

I doubt even 1,000 authors bitching and whining would change Lazeez's mind. For good reason.

Now if another 100 authors were to stamp their feet and demand the facility, it might be a different matter.

If the coding doesn't make it worth the effort then it's not worth doing. It would be convenient, absolutely, especially for small formatting changes, but it's a matter of how much effort he'd have to put in to make the site do that. Not to mention the time that he'd have to put in to working out any bugs that the code would create with other parts of the site.

I just had a case of my working copy was correct, but the file copy I uploaded, I'd missed a word. It wasn't that hard to simply replace my file copy and re-upload the missing word. It now replaces the whole chapter online, because of one word. However, the file copy is also the one I use when I'm using Calibre to create my e-book for Bookapy. I'd much rather take the extra time on MY end to make sure everything is right, before putting something up that's NOT right on the customer's end.

You're doing it exactly like you should. What maybe some authors do not understand is that from the moment you have your copy ready for upload the rest of the process is mostly automated. On SOL's side the 'process' doesn't care if one word or the whole chapter changed. The computer and SOL's software do the job. I suspect that the only manual job that remains is that Lazeez must verify each upload. But he has to do that whether one word or a whole chapter changed. Thus the existing process is also perfect for changing one word. Actually, the existing process is better because it remains one single type of process to monitor instead of two.