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Originally Posted by Just4kix
I can't agree more about bad spelling and poor grammar.
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On the other hand, many prestigious publishers have disappointed me in that very way. Apparently, it isn't a problem to charge roughly the same price for a book that requires no production and manufacturing costs as one that does, but it is a problem to pay one proofreader to check the less expensive book. I can't think of any other excuse for the wretched typos and scan/conversion errors in several eBooks published by Penguin -- among them, Lydia Davis's translation of
Du côté de chez Swann, Huysmans'
À rebours and Potocki's
The Manuscript Found in Saragossa. To my recollection, the printed versions of those books weren't perfect, but they succeeded at not making you stop at every paragraph to shake your fist at humanity.