Thread: Ebooks filled with typos and bad formatting, is it unavoidable?
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Old 07-31-2011, 05:26 PM   #69
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Originally Posted by OneandonlyDoc View Post
That's really interesting that you'd make that observation about BAEN's ebooks (David Weber's work, in this case), because I've actually been more impressed with their good formatting than I have been with any other "traditional" publisher's formatting.
It's quite variable. Weber is pretty good IMO, which is interesting because he doesn't type. He uses Dragon, one of the few commercial writers that I know of that does, and gets away with it. I assume that he has a very good speaking voice. Ringo isn't as good. It's mostly from the early draft thingies that BAEN so loves to let loose, but then doesn't re edit when they actually print the book. Given BAEN's support for digital formats (one of the best in the world) I think it's just oversights from too much work. Nobody's perfect.
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