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crich70 · 10-01-2011, 02:45 AM

There is one thing to also be considered. Sometimes the ebook version is just plain sloppy. Formatting errors and so forth that wouldn't make it into the marketplace for a paper book sometimes seem to just slip by the publishers. Recently I bought a book that besides not having a working TOC (useful in a non-fiction book) but also had an error in chapter numbering. It went from Chapter 8 to Chapter 9 to Chapter 8 again. For some reason no one else had caught it before I noticed it. Of course the book wasn't expensive (under $5.00 if I recall) but such errors would not be allowed to be published in a paper book. Granted even editors are human, and this is a mild example, but why pay $9.99 on up if the quality of the ebook isn't assured?

10-01-2011, 02:45 AM	#49
crich70 Grand Sorcerer Posts: 11,310 Karma: 43993832 Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Monroe Wisconsin Device: K3, Kindle Paperwhite, Calibre, and Mobipocket for Pc (netbook)	There is one thing to also be considered. Sometimes the ebook version is just plain sloppy. Formatting errors and so forth that wouldn't make it into the marketplace for a paper book sometimes seem to just slip by the publishers. Recently I bought a book that besides not having a working TOC (useful in a non-fiction book) but also had an error in chapter numbering. It went from Chapter 8 to Chapter 9 to Chapter 8 again. For some reason no one else had caught it before I noticed it. Of course the book wasn't expensive (under $5.00 if I recall) but such errors would not be allowed to be published in a paper book. Granted even editors are human, and this is a mild example, but why pay $9.99 on up if the quality of the ebook isn't assured?