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Originally Posted by physics
When I see a book with so many typos that it's pretty worthless, I send an email to the kindle feedback email address that clearly lists the mistakes, along with approximate line numbers. That list gets forwarded to the publisher, who can then decide whether or not to remove the book and "fix" it. The "fix" is in quotation marks because I've had them remove about a dozen books, and none of them have ever reappeared. Most publishers are actually pretty good at removing the books, except imprints of Elsevier.
However, the downside is that because Amazon doesn't make the ebooks themselves, they don't fix them, so you're at the mercy of the publishers. So if you say, hey, the phi at line 45 should be a psi, you're not going to get a fixed version. At best the book will disappear from Amazon's website.
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This answers a question I've had (sort of), but also presents me with a dilemma.
There's a non-fiction ebook on Japanese tea ceremony of which I recently downloaded a sample. The book itself looks well worth reading, but every time a special character occurs - such as the macron over the 'o' in
Chado, which is found everywhere because Chado
means tea ceremony in Japanese - it appears in a hugely bloated type size. This is enormously distracting, to say the least, and makes even a serious enthusiast like me very reluctant to buy the book.
Now, I know it's possible to render vowels with macrons accurately in MOBI files, because I've seen them. That the text looks this awful is really rather disgraceful.
I've wanted to write to someone (Amazon? Kindle Support? the author?) to alert them, since I'm sure this must inhibit their already-limited ebook sales. However, if the choice is between the book being available in less-than-attractive format vs. not at all... well, let's just say that there are almost no books on Chado in the ebook universe at all. I'm not sure I want to be responsible for killing one of them!
Advice?