Thread: Some perspective on why ebooks are so filled with errors.
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Old 10-24-2011, 06:57 PM   #83
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Originally Posted by jupstin View Post
Are you saying that publishers would hire more editors to produce acceptable ebooks if only there were qualified people available for the job?
It's not more editors that are needed. It's people who can look at the process, see what's the matter and get it put right. If that means the publisher needs more people to be able to edit the Word document so that will be the up-to-date source instead of the PDF, then so be it. If it means more people to read after the OCR then so be it. If that means actually viewing the eBooks to check formatting, so be it.

They need to do it right and most of what they do now is wrong. It doesn't always take much time to fix shoddy formatting. So that should be part of the process. Reading OCRed eBooks should also be part of the process. PDF should not be involved at all.
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