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The Granada School of Guitar-makers
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gansz
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 RE: The Granada School of Guitar-makers (in reply to johnguitar)
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Indeed, a database is only as good as the cataloguing of its individual records, and Amazon's "authority" controls leave much to be desired.
The U.S. Amazon site copied the U.K. site's misinformation.
As one of the book's authors, I jumped through all of the Amazon hoops and provided them with accurate information with which to revise their listing. They rejected all of my additions and corrections, citing "insufficient evidence."
So I jumped through all of the same hoops again, this time providing them with scans of the title page, table of contents, etc. Again, they rejected the updates saying I had supplied insufficient evidence(!!!!).
At that point I went ballistic and spent literally half a work-day trying to get somebody on the telephone at Amazon. Not an easy task! When I finally got a live human being in a position of authority, I read him the riot act and demamded satisfaction.
Well, they made most of the changes, but still don't list John Ray as the Editor and, last I looked, still have it listed as a paperback.
Here's the link: http://www.amazon.com/escuela-Granadina-guitarreros-The-Granada-Guitar-makers/dp/8478075372
It's tough enough assuring accurate information makes it into print, let alone having to deal with the WalMart of the bookselling world distributing inaccurate and faulty product descriptions, then insisting they're right.
Please do pursue a copy via your local, friendly, 'neighborhood' music store.
Cheers,
David
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Date Jul. 15 2014 12:05:58
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Ruphus
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RE: The Granada School of Guitar-makers (in reply to johnguitar)
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There used to be supplies that were considered and treated specially, because of counting to primare needs and thus being protected to a degree from arbitrary marketing and profiteering. Those were sections like food, housing, health care and education, and with the last item books that used to be subsidized and fairly available and affordable.
Past decades of predator capitalism and corruption has had all this go to hell. Books, often times even just paper backs, despite of todays comfortable production methods are outrageously expensive, with usually only some ridiculous share of the margin left to the authors.
And on top of it common distribution majors treat the authors like a POS.
Mine acted against my will, by publishing a detail explicitely asked for to NOT do so, and since then does nothing to repair. Instead replying in a cynically kind of style that these days seems to have become standard anyway with major companies treatment of their underdogs and end consumer.
And in the practical contrary of lofty disregard of ants wishes there are employed hosts of people / more than enough staff for to delegate a couple heads to correcting hoax or misconceptions like mentioned in this thread. Easily.
It should be no problem at all to decently respond to correcting inquiries, but all the excessive profiteering has proven to be completely unproductive in terms of sophisticating, with oligarchs and their entourage yet displaying all attitude of primitive and perfidious being.
All the privileg unable of producing satisfaction and emotional balance, but still just dwarfs who need to magnify the underprivileged being of surrounding people in order to feel elitist themselves.
The advance of cynism in the industries shows what happens when low-brows become leaders.
Where I am typicallly the sophisticated belong to the lower middle class and to the poor, whereas those who have become literally insanely rich usually are uneducated ( regarding both, emotion and ratio).
And while this is based on local, traditional whereabouts; my impression is as if the same principle was spreading globally.
Fools and emotional autists as perfect heads in oligarchy and plutocracy.
Ruphus
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Date Jul. 19 2014 10:31:58
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) found a little frustrating some editing choices and the lack of some essential infos (both in the catalog and the guitar making techniques).