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If I'd paid £12 for the paper version, I'd also expect it to be free of these errors. One is not getting what one has paid for. |
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It doesn't matter how much one pays for an eBook. If it was legally obtained, then it should be without errors that do not also exist in the current print edition.
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Unfortunately. that depends on whether or not the "publishers" of the books use proofreaders; I don't think they do (as a matter of fact, I'm sure they don't) and it seems, from what I've read in the short time I've been reading these threads, that this profound fact has suddenly burst upon the ebook world to the amazement of the buyers of same (at a much cheaper price than the old-fashioned book store's price).
As I said earlier, you pay for what you get. People continually letting the world know about how they're "proofreading" ebooks and correcting the mistakes they find, maybe in hopes of getting the suppliers to fix them up and return whatever they paid for them, are missing the whole point ... that is, the publishers couldn't care less about the literals their books contain. Why should they? They've already got your money. Wasn't it a Mister Barnum who said, "There's one born every minute"? There are always buyers out there who will pay less and expect more. And I'd love to compare the results of what amateurs consider as "proofreading" to what a professional can find in the same text. |
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The difference is with a totally amateur seller, where they state that their attempts are possibly not going to be brilliant. Edited to add: for example, with the Harper Collins edition of the Lord of the Rings (the publishers of a money spinning collection), I'd expect the epub text to be at least as error free as the paper version. Last edited by CallOfCth'reader; 06-16-2012 at 07:10 PM. |
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So, if people find some literals in an ebook, they can call themselves "proofreaders"?
That's like saying if you slap a Band-Aid on a cut, you can call yourself a doctor ... |
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Finding errors and misspellings in a book is all "proofreading" is about whereas slapping a band-aid on a cut is a very small and insignificant fraction of what being a doctor is all about, therefore your comparison is a fallacy.
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Oh, mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa.
I thought we were talking about "proofreaders", those people who read words and get paid for finding mistakes in them, not those people who read words, find mistakes in them and call themselves "proofreaders". But then, after being in this trade since 1957, what do I know? Last edited by John the Miner; 06-17-2012 at 05:01 PM. |
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The difference would then be "professional proofreaders" on one side and amateur proofreaders on the other. What is your point ?
Because mine would be that in this issue, it seems amateurs are often better at proofreading than professionals. The real question is why ... Quote:
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