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Dear all: I'm not trolling; I have no need to start an argument and then sit back and smirk and watch what develops, no matter what anyone thinks.
My sole starting point is that, as a professional proofie since 1957, I'm appalled at the literals on display in downloaded public domain manuscripts and, apparently, in purchased ebooks.
Whether those mistakes are a result of malfunctioning OCR programs or malfunctioning "editors" or proofreaders in the publishing houses is of no concern to me as I don't buy anything from the ebook purveyors.
It doesn't worry me in the slightest if consumers of these texts get upset at the mistakes they find in them, the answer is in their hands (or their wallets).
The whole idea of people buying ebook readers and putting books on them, seeing the mistakes they contain, complaining on this forum about those mistakes and then sitting down and spending time correcting them for their own (and others') benefit is exceeding strange to me.
Why should the customers fix up the publishing houses' mistakes?
If a text costs 99c or $1.99 or $5.99 or $9.99 from a company selling ebooks (let's call it the ABC Company), while the old-fashioned paper version costs many dollars more, then caveat emptor! Isn't that the name of the game? Don't you get what you pay for? Why complain at the shoddiness of the goods you continually pay for?
If the ABC Company puts out material that's riddled with mistakes and the customers find enough of those mistakes to upset them and broadcast those concerns on forums like these, why should those same customers continue to support the ABC Company?
How soon would it take the ABC Company to straighten up and fly right if, all of a sudden, their sales dropped dramatically because somebody in the organisation happened to take notice of continual posts on this forum wherein the company's name was liberally highlighted as being a seller of rubbish texts?
Has that happened?
Yet?
No?
If not, why not?
Well, then ...
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