Thread: Ebooks filled with typos and bad formatting, is it unavoidable?
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Old 07-20-2011, 07:39 AM   #30
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Originally Posted by mldavis2 View Post
This was the topic of a recent thread on TeleRead. The bottom line is something that will permeate many areas of our lives as budgets are cut in the ongoing world economic crisis and jobs are lost to technological (OCR) shortcuts. Proofreaders are icing on the profit cake and expendable unless or until readers vote with their wallets. If they can sell a book with errors, why on earth pay someone to eliminate them unless it impacts sales? There is no pride in product for profit without proofing. One can also wonder if publishers are trying to make a case against eBooks in selling such sloppy products.
http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/why-e...ed-with-typos/
These days they use advance reader copies. The writer sends them out to fans and they let him know about any mistakes they spot. The problem with that is proof reading is a unique skill that not many people possess, so if they don't have a fan with that skill they go out with lots of mistakes.
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