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4. Re: The Great Animal Orchestra Launch Day

Subject: 4. Re: The Great Animal Orchestra Launch Day
From: "Bernie Krause" bigchirp1
Date: Fri Mar 23, 2012 9:47 am ((PDT))
We know, Dan. I've sent this into our publisher and it's being worked
on. It'll get straightened out. BTW, thanks for coming to the launch
the other eve. Great to see you and Sharon.

Bernie


On Mar 23, 2012, at 9:42 AM, Dan Dugan wrote:

>> The content differences among the various versions of the book are
>> not very clear from reading the descriptions on Amazon, iTunes, or
>> even on the Hachette website. Do you know whether Hachette has
>> plans to improve the detail of these descriptions?
>
> This is a marketing mess, Bernie! Please forward my complaint to the
> publisher. I bought a hard-cover expecting a CD and the Apple iBook
> expecting sounds in the text. Neither were provided.
>
> Now I search for Bernie Krause in iBooks and there are six products
> branded "The Great Animal Orchestra." Six! Four free sounds albums
> described as "shorts," whatever that means, and two editions of the
> book, one "enhanced" which when you open its screen says "This book
> includes audio" in fine print away from the main description.
>
> All you need is a hard cover with a CD inside, and an electronic
> edition with the sounds. Seems simple but I don't know what they
> were thinking.
>
> I'm buying another copy of the edition I should have ordered=85you
> can't return iBooks or give them to a friend.
>
> -Dan
>
> ------------------------------------
>
> "While a picture is worth a thousand words, a
> sound is worth a thousand pictures." R. Murray Schafer via Bernie
> Krause.
>
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