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Originally Posted by Steven Lyle Jordan
Harper Collins recently revealed to me (through one of its authors) that they farm out the process of scanning and OCR'ing backlist titles at a minimum cost per book. Apparently the cost of prepping the copy doesn't include proofing the resultant copy, which HC releases onto the market with not even a cursory check. Comments I've seen elsewhere lead me to believe that this is the norm with publishers.
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The myth that pirate releases are worse quality than commercial product still seems safe though, based on how often I see it repeated in posts.