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Originally Posted by rlauzon
In some cases they do - since they get the file directly from the author. But older ones (like Robert E. Howard, for example) there are no electronic versions (well, no legal ones at least).
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Look carefully and you'll find that the most problematic books come from two publishers.
Rosetta as a few real atrocities in their collection; I bought "Restaurant at the End of the Universe" and wanted a refund almost instantly. Very obvious OCR errors all over the place, some of which a simple spell checker would have caught.
Renaissance is the other big culprit. One ebook I bought had all the paragraphs center-aligned. Every. Single. One. Another had a lot of embedded hyphens in the middle of words - left over from the OCR scan where a line break had occured, I'm guessing.
I complained about this in my review of the eb1150, and it is one of the things that can kill acceptance of electronic books.
Major publishers, otoh, I have not seen this issue with. The Del Rey editions of Robert E Howard's works, for instance, have looked good so far.