SUGGESTION: Traditional / Simplified Chinese switch

PL said:

Hi Philip,

It looks like Faithlife is now producing every Chinese resource in two versions, Traditional and Simplified characters. They are listed, marketed, produced, and sold separately. This unnecessarily increase your production workload, and as the Chinese libraries grow, this will double our resource listings in our library and give rise to redundancy and potential inconsistency.

May I strongly suggest that Faithlife consider simply adding a Traditional / Simplified switch (either at the Program level or at the Resource level, or both) to allow the user to switch between the two scripts at will for each resource? This will streamline a lot of things for both Faithlife and for the user.

Thanks for your consideration!

Peter

Hi, Peter,

Thank you for your suggestion.  I myself also agree with you.  However, this is not what we can do.  Publishers have copyrights for either Traditional Chinese or Simplified Chinese resources or both and NOT allowing us do this "Switching SC/TC" function.  In some Chinese resources, we are only granted either Traditional Chinese or Simplified Chinese not both.  For example, like 丁道爾聖經註釋系列, we only have the copyright for Traditional Chinese.  Therefore, depending on your reading preference, you only need to purchase either TC or SC books.  I hope you understand.  Thank you.

Best regards,

Philip

PL said:

That's very unfortunate. Hopefully this will change in the future. I've worked for a publisher before and I understand it's a very siloed, confusing world with archaic copyright/royalty rules.

Thanks for responding so promptly,

Peter

Hi, Peter,

You are welcome.  Let's hope it will change in the future.  Thanks.

Best regards,

Philip