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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
All I can say is that I must be extremely lucky in what ebooks I purchase/read. Because I honestly haven't noticed any marked difference in the number of typos in ebooks compared to typos in print books. Granted... I'm just not really buying much in the way of backlist titles.
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My experience is quite different.
I am constantly finding so many typos in ebooks it's really getting annoying. I recently gave up on Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations because all ebook versions I bought (and I bought three, from different publishers) were atrocious. I went back to my paper copy.
Another really bad experience was with a 'young' series - the whole 'Song of Ice and Fire'. The ebooks I have have some, frankly few, typos, but the formatting is often wrong. Especially in dialogues, they often forgot to break between two different characters speaking, so that, at times, it is just one big block of speech, when it should be going 'back-and-forth'. I found that in all the so-far books, bought from SONY's store in epub.
Funny thing is, I get the WSJ in ebook format and it has constant typos. So does the Financial Times. The same articles do NOT have typos, or nowhere near as many, in print, or on the respective iPad apps. But but both SONY and Kindle versions are full of mistakes.
It's really the dark side of ebooks, if you ask me. Typos, poor formatting, omitted notes and introductions... the product is often as expensive as print, but seldom of the same quality.
Oh... another one that just drove me nuts. Book 4 of the 'Wheel of Time'. I started using the 'report error' feature on my PW, so I kept count. I found 37 typos and a couple of missing punctuation marks.