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Originally Posted by Serpentine
Publishers outsource the conversion - especially for back catalogs - to rather lazy folk that work for near minimum wage often. Batch scripts and paperback scans are part of the work, do you really think they're going to bother doing any proofing on formatting retention? ofc not, it's not like they'll ever hear feedback or suffer in any way.
If you're sitting and formatting a book in your own time, you can easily do a better job without trying. But for the 3 hours of work it'd cost somewhere around $120 per super simple novel... or $5 if they just don't and use bulk deals.
Don't really understand why you're trying to protect a bunch of bad practices, but I guess corporate greed needs someone to justify it  |
Trying to make a very simple point... it takes time, money and people to do it... you can't magically conjure up a large increase in the number of people capable of doing good proofing let alone editing and those that exist have plenty of work to do so everybody wants cheap ebooks and all backlists made available without paying for the work and with trained people that don't exist. It's not a matter of protecting bad practices,just a matter of realism but all of the "experts" on proofing etc seem to forget that these things don't just happen... and certainly not for free though, of course, ebooks don't cost anything...
