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Old 10-29-2012, 04:42 PM   #26
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Originally Posted by MartinC View Post
I would be very surprised if publishers handled print editions and ebook editions of new books separately - everything's electronic nowadays, it wouldn't make sense to have two production processes. If I have any beef with ebooks from big publishers it's exactly this: they sometimes don't seem to realise that reflowable text needs a little extra attention to make sure it works properly.
Have a look at John Julius Norwich's history of Venice published by Penguin. Full of OCR errors which could have been picked up if someone had run the text through a spellchecker never mind employed a proofreader.
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