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It's amazingly obvious in this thread who the people are with real-world publishing experience.
As was already stated, proofing errors, typos, OCR errors, and formatting errors all seem to be jumbled together in this discussion, even though they represent different problems. But what I am really wondering is just what books are filled with all these horrendous errors, because I simply haven't seen them.
Almost all my book purchases are from the big Agency publishers, often with price tags of $12.99. Other than a few run-of-the-mill typos that creep into every book, the main quirk I've noticed is the removal of hyphens from all hyphenated words (e.g., custom-built becomes custombuilt), which is presumably a computer error. I've also seen a few instances where display type (e.g., a dropped cap in the chapter opening) is not displayed correctly, or margins for an extract are too wide--again, small stuff.
Since in some discussions there seem to be a lot of people who loudly proclaim that they will not go over a certain price point, or will not buy from the Agency publishers, or will not buy a DRM book, I'm wondering if either (1) you get what you pay for, or (2) there really aren't that many errors after all.
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