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Algiedi · 07-18-2011, 02:06 AM

Hello everyone!

I bought by first ebook only a few days ago.

The ebook in question being Dance with Dragons by GRRM, I was very surprised to see that the quality was terrible: formatting errors, typos all over the place...
I knew that this kind of stuff happened in some French publishing houses with little to no interest in (or respect for) ebooks, but I would never have expected Amazon of all people releasing such a shitty product, and for such a big author.

So tell me, knowledgeable people from MR, does this happen a lot? Has bad formatting and general bad quality already become a tradition in ebooks (cause frankly, when the very first character of the first page has an obvious formatting error, how do you even miss that)?
Or was it just a one-time thing, an unlucky pick for a first buy?

07-18-2011, 02:06 AM	#1
Algiedi Overenthusiastic Noob Posts: 69 Karma: 896 Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: France Device: Kindle 3	Ebooks filled with typos and bad formatting, is it unavoidable? Hello everyone! I bought by first ebook only a few days ago. The ebook in question being Dance with Dragons by GRRM, I was very surprised to see that the quality was terrible: formatting errors, typos all over the place... I knew that this kind of stuff happened in some French publishing houses with little to no interest in (or respect for) ebooks, but I would never have expected Amazon of all people releasing such a shitty product, and for such a big author. So tell me, knowledgeable people from MR, does this happen a lot? Has bad formatting and general bad quality already become a tradition in ebooks (cause frankly, when the very first character of the first page has an obvious formatting error, how do you even miss that)? Or was it just a one-time thing, an unlucky pick for a first buy?