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Old 05-20-2011, 02:52 AM   #193
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Originally Posted by raac View Post
There is no question that e-books contain errors not present in the original. Here is a excerpt of an e-mail I sent to Penguin today.

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I recently bought the e-book version of Collapse, by Jared Diamond. The book itself is excellent, but the e-book has a number of deficiences not present in the paper version, despite the latter being cheaper in some stores.

Firstly, the e-book version contains none of the images (apart from maps) present in the original. Other e-books contain images and the devices are able to display them, so why have the been removed from this book? Secondly, the text contains references to the missing images. Obviously little care has been taken in editing when converting from paper to e-book format. Thirdly, the index is useless: it is merely an alphabetical list which contains no page numbers or hyper-links to the listed terms. Fourthly, there seems to be some problem with the font embedding because on my Sony PRS-950 some character are rendered as question marks. This occurs for all the symbols separating terms in the chapter summary lists, and for some characters which have accents.

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E-books have a number of disadvantages for the reader, such as an inability to lend or sell them. If, despite this, you wish to charge the same price as the physical book then, please, at least create them with same care and do not remove content present in the original.
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I always write to publishers when stuff like this happens. They must be told that it's not acceptable to sending out half-baked jobs of this sort.
I find that Penguin produced the ebook version without all of the images outrageous: I am very curious to know what they replied to you (hope they did!)
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