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Originally Posted by Mememememe
So, these publishers are undoubtedly using Word files. These files will have been copyedited, but as anyone in publishing knows, even copyedited manuscripts contain errors -- sometimes many errors. That's why books are proofread after they're designed.
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I think for the specific book I was complaining about ("Bellwether" by Connie Willis), the book was optically scanned and then converted using OCR. I can think of no other way the word "click" could become the word "dick". All the other errors I spotted were of the "geometrically similar" variety.