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Old 06-10-2012, 03:18 AM   #88
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Because people here know how to fix ePUBs, they think that any publisher can just sit at their computer, yank up Sigil and fix the book, voila! Well, most can't. Most have an investment in printing technology, not ebook technology. They pay companies like mine to make their ebooks, OR companies in India or what-have-you. They pay line editors, in either instance.
Well... If they are making business with ebooks, and they want customers to buy ebooks from them, they should be able to provide quality ebooks. If they can't, they should stop selling them, or at least charging more than $1.

If they can't fix the errors themselves and have to pay $50 to someone else, so be it, they made much more than that by selling the error-laden ebook first. It's not the fact that there are errors that annoys me, it's the apparent total unwillingness to even pay attention to them.
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