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Originally Posted by HarryT
I must respectfully disagree, ducks. For backlist books where no electronic version exists there certainly is a choice to be made about what level of proofing to do after OCRing the book. More proofing = higher cost. For books with a relatively low anticipated sales volume, such as old "mid-list" SF, it's probably not economic to aim to produce a completely error-free book at a sensible price. It's a matter of finding the optimal balance between quality and price. Too many errors and you'll annoy the reader; too high a price and the potential reader won't buy it in the first place. I can live with an error every 10 pages, say. I can't with live an error on every page.
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Harry,
Maybe I needed to be clearer. I expect the e-version to be of the same quality as the original. I am not speaking of improving the quality of the prose
PG seems to manage quite well in this respect.
Like Speakingtohe, I can tolerate minor errors. But I don't consider blocks of missing/garbled/mis-ordered text, minor.