[murraypaul]

Originally Posted by elcreative

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...

Yes it costs money.
It costs money to proofread paper books as well.
Would you consider it acceptable for paper books to be sold with these sorts of errors in?
Why should we pay for a shoddy job? If we were getting them without paying, we would probably have more tolerance for the errors, but when ebooks are sold at similar prices to paper books, but with much lower quality, why shouldn't people complain?
We keep being told that most of the costs of producing a paper book also apply to producing an eBook. So where is money for editing and proofreading going?