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Old 11-30-2010, 12:41 PM   #15
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Originally Posted by jswinden View Post
Scannos are definitely quite common in scanned/OCRed books. However, there are a lot of non-scanned books loaded with typos as well. In an industry where people can self-publish you get a bit of garbage with the good. Some self-publishers (authors) don't spend the money to have their work edited, and it shows. I get quite annoyed reading news articles and other internet posts, written by so-called professionals, that are riddled with typos. Occasionally you will get an ebook like that too.
It isn't just self pubbers that don't bother using proof readers, that is something the big publishers save money on too. I have yet to read any ebook that hasn't had at least some mistakes in it, most have lots of them. The same goes for real books I buy that have been published in the last 5 years or so.
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