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Originally Posted by HarryT
But many customers - myself included - prefer to buy from traditional publishers because it's a reasonable assurance of reasonable quality standards (I'm sure there are exceptions to that). A traditional publisher isn't going to invest money in publishing a book unless they think it will show a profit. I'm sorry to say this but they few independently-published books I've looked at have not been up to professional standards.
Price is not a consideration in book buying for me; quality is.
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I've read a number of eBooks that have errors that the print editions do not have. The publishers do not bothers to check for errors. Just look at
The Lord of the Rings. It was riddled with errors left & right. Another example is
Hyperion. It was riddled with OCR errors that were not bothered to be fixed.
Backlist eBooks should be proofed so errors not already in the print edition are not added to the eBook edition. The problem is that some of these errors can take you right out of the story.