Thread: Typos in ebooks
View Single Post
Old 01-27-2011, 03:25 PM   #133
mr ploppy
Feral Underclass
mr ploppy ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.mr ploppy ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.mr ploppy ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.mr ploppy ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.mr ploppy ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.mr ploppy ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.mr ploppy ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.mr ploppy ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.mr ploppy ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.mr ploppy ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.mr ploppy ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.
 
mr ploppy's Avatar
 
Posts: 3,622
Karma: 26821535
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Yorkshire, tha noz
Device: 2nd hand paperback
Quote:
Originally Posted by Quexos View Post
I see.
However this remains unforgivable. All that is needed after a text has been OCR'd is for someone to proof-read it. Now don't tell me publishers can't afford that or did not think of that.
Like most businesses, publishers are looking at ways of saving money. Proff-redding was one of the things they dropped several years ago. Instead of paying people to do it, they print advance reader copies which the author sends out to fans. The fans then report any mistakes they notice and those get fixed. The ones that don't get noticed stay in the book.
mr ploppy is offline   Reply With Quote