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Originally Posted by Quexos
Retail quality is said of an ebook that is not just put together by fans or pirates but actually purchased then made available online. It is by definition the best quality version available. With table of content, complete text and nice formatting.
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I think you are wrong here. Purchased ebooks can be of very poor quality, with lots of OCR errors and a formatting that would make you cry. Fan-made ebooks can be of very good quality, throroughly proofread, with additional content (maps, illustrations), etc. You are probably assuming that a purchased ebook has the same "quality" as the printed book, but this is often not true.
It can get more dramatic when we come to public-domain works. In our library you can find proofread well-formatted versions of many books, with a much better quality than a purchased ebook, which is often a straight conversion of the Project Gutenberg version. It is even possible to find printed books that contain the same errors as the PG version, and with a terrible formatting.