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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
Perhaps you missed that part.
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I don't know what your definition of 'backlist' is. I mention the 'Song of Ice and Fire' - the latest book, specifically, 'A Dance with Dragons'. Big seller, for a while on top of the lists. I bought it at release. Plenty of typos and formatting errors.
Narcopolis by Jeet Thayil - Penguin Group, April 2012. One of the Man Booker finalists. Not 'plenty of typos', but at least half a dozen really noticeable ones.
The worst copy of The Wealth of Nations is an April 2011 edition. Backlist? Perhaps, it's certainly not a fresh book. But it just happens to be perhaps the most important book in economics of all times, and you can't read it on e-ink without dealing with typos, omissions, formatting errors.
I could keep going, but I don't see the point.
But the idea that this is confined to small publishers, minor works or scanned text is just a fallacy.