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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
Preferably the same people who review the books themselves. The only downside of that comes with multiple formats... who wants to review a book, then add comments about the quality of the Kindle edition, the Sony edition, the Feedbooks edition, the Mobi edition, the ePub edition, etc, etc...
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I think it has more to do with the fact that most presented books are older, had been released way before and that since all the reviews were out years ago, they were too lazy or under staffed to properly re-release the works.
I haven't bought a newer ebook yet but I suspect most of them have been correctly checked and processed. All that has to be checked is the formating for the different devices. If they do have to reread for all device formats, there is something terribly wrong with their format conversion process that should be addressed immediately.
When I hear of major OCR errors, I can't help thinking that those resellers might have simply taken a CD full of books or, God forbid, a Black Mask DVD to simply redistribute previously scanned works.
We also have to keep in mind that each read can take well over ten hours of time and more to annotate. That is a lot of money they rather woulkd keep.