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Originally Posted by graycyn
Sadly, I see a fair few errors even in new books, just released recently. One of the error types I've seen several times lately in new releases is books where words aren't separated by a space. You'll be going along reading and see something like "hewouldhave" or "Jamessaid" or something like that. The other error that is common still in new releases is messing up dialog. Really inexcusable.
If one single person goes through a backlist OCR'd book, they can catch a great deal of the errors, even with a casual proofread. I'm not talking about a lengthy, careful, word by word comparison to the print book, but just a read through, marking all noticed errors. Just that sort of minimal proof can really improve things. ...
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Actually, the spelling and grammar checker in MS Word would catch most of that. All it takes is a halfway literate high-school student to ride herd on it. Some ebook creators aren't willing to do even that much.
I recently read several of the 'Charlie Fox' books by Zoe Sharp. The older ones had been well-converted by a house engaged by the author, and self-published for $2.99. You could tell when her current US publisher (Macmillan) took over. That book was obviously OCR'd, riddled with stupid errors, not competently proofread and $6.99. The latest ebook was also done by the US publisher. The quality was almost as good as that of the first group, but the price was $7.99! Five bucks more for only slightly inferior work!
Regards,
Jack Tingle