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Been away for a bit, and I expected to find this thread on page 42.
Anyway, the first thing that strikes me when perusing this thread is how much people seem to already have accepted poor quality as something inherent to ebooks, by saying "it's not THAT bad".
Maybe I'm alone in tsk-ing and shaking my head when I find ONE spelling mistake in a paper book. Here, I'm at 72% and I noted about 140 errors. Spaces in the middle of words, paragraph breaks missing (US version btw)...
Sure, the errors in DoD are not so horrible as to confuse the reader (well except when you get characters seemingly having a dialogue with themselves), but I can't even being to imagine this happening in a paper book without triggering massive outrage from the readers.
Once again, it's something I thought only lingered in the French publishing world: the idea that eBooks are "lesser" books, inherently poorer in quality and that they don't deserve the attention and care given to even the cheapest romance novel (on paper, of course). Which means that eBook readers also are "lesser" readers, that somehow don't deserve to get a good product for their money.
Frankly, I feel ripped off. And also very confused: if people are supposed to be voting-with-their-wallets, I assumed that Amazon, with their awesome sales numbers, was a provider of top-notch quality ebooks. And it turns out that they're not even aware that their own goddamn format doesn't do drop caps! So what's going on? Everyone is really just okay with that? Are we really gonna get a bunch of government officials and business analysts wonder without a hint of sarcasm why people are turning to piracy?
It's a mad world, I tell you! Mad!
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