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Originally Posted by craig8128
I think that the ebook sellers should emphasize that they're providing a quality product. I don't know how many of you have actually *looked* at any of the ebooks that're out there in torrent-land, but a surprising number of them are junk: no formatting, or OCR'ed by someone who never bothered to inspect the output. Or just irritating formatting that would take hours to fix. The publishers have a definite edge here, and I think they should exploit it.
Craig
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The commercial publishers aren't immune from those sort of mistakes either. A lot of it is down to using PDF as the source format. And I don't think even print publishers use proofreaders any more, judging by the number of mistakes in new hardbacks.