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Originally Posted by Steven Lyle Jordan
The book was Deepsix, by Jack McDevitt. I did contact Harper Collins through their site feedback line. More importantly, so did Mr. McDevitt, after I emailed him to inform him of his sabotaged product. They may not care about my complaints (they haven't responded to me), but they may listen to their author. Maybe.
Copyright for the book, and the ebook, is listed as 2001. Somehow, I doubt this ebook was created nine years ago: It was scanned from a 2001 printed copy, probably within the last year.
Only for the proofreader... or whoever told them to do a half-assed job. And I'm sure I'm not the only one who remembers the phrase "Pride in ownership."
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Interesting. For a 2001 book, I would have expected HC to have a digital file to work from.
It's all about the deadlines. It's possible that a proofreader was an idiot who did a lousy job; it's also possible--and probably more likely--that some higher-up set an impossible deadline for delivery that didn't allow for adequate (or any!) proofing. The proofreader is low man on the totem pole and is the one whose deadline gets squeezed.