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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Here is what I don't get...
The author sends in an electronic document (usually Word) of the book. Since the publisher has an electronic version of the book, why is it we get errors that were not in the original submitted text or in the printed version?
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According to
this Huffington Post article, it's because a lot of editing and proof-reading is done in the page layout files, which aren't used for the e-books.
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In many cases, this means that the e-book is created from the author's original Word files because it's the easiest (currently) to format. And because this document doesn't reflect the editorial and proofing changes that the book underwent during the typesetter's page layout process, the author's Word file that winds up as an e-book is often full of errors.
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