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Originally Posted by vxf
One example: A Dance with Dragons. I think I paid USD 16 for it. Certainly a large-volume book, not a minor publisher. And a brand new book, written in 2011. And filled with errors not in the print edition - which is available at the same, if not lower, price.
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I bought the hardcover, but I read parts of it in the digital version. DwD was spectacular compared to some releases.
Check out the Amazon reviews for the Kindle edition of Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern trilogy. That had missing punctuation (even periods!), names spelled wrong (intermittently...would be very confusing for a new reader), etc.
Just one single proofread by a person would improve the quality about 100%. When even periods are missing (and lots of them!) you can tell no one really laid eyes on it.