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Originally Posted by mr ploppy
If by stealers you mean people who read unauthorised ebooks, you couldn't be more wrong. They will often fix mistakes they find while reading and either "release" the fixed versions themselves or report the mistakes so that someone else can do it. With retail ebooks, even if you send the publisher a list of mistakes they will never be corrected.
The problem is with the file collectors. They won't pick up the fixed ebook because they think they already have it, so the error-filled version continues to circulate. And since there are more file collectors than readers, those are the versions that are easiest to find.
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You're right on the money. I've gotten the impression that with a lot of books, the readers treat the file as a sort of Project Gutenberg affair. It's not uncommon to see version numbers appended to the end of a file's name.