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Ideally, there would be a way to report typos directly to the publisher. This would work something like this:
- highlight the error
- add a note describing the error and how to fix
- there would be a 'send a correction' button
- an automated response would be emailed with a case # you could use to track status, check for newer, corrected versions, or perhaps even see all the other error reports that have been logged for the version you have.
Feature should be available only to those who opt-in, and agree to some basic terms and conditions. Perhaps there could be 'reputation points' awarded to encourage more accurate and productive reviewers and give their feedback more precedence; publishers could gift them with free books from time to time.
To close the loop there should be a way to get a corrected version when it is available without any additional charge.
Publishers would be free to ignore the feedback, of course, but it might encourage them to at least improve their quality control to avoid the expense of correcting things after publication, which tends to be much more expensive than dealing with errors at their source.
In short there's no reason ebooks could not be much more error free than print books, given the possibilities of crowd-sourcing the error correction.
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