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Originally Posted by JD Gumby
*looks at thread title* Because publishers are cheap and can't be bothered to hire the same editors & proofreaders they'd use for their mass-market paperback versions (and greedy, of course, for not passing the savings resulting from the lack of physical manufacturing, transportation, and storage on to the consumer).
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Wow -- wrong on several points. Most of the ebook editors I know who work for major publishing houses are badly overworked and heavily under-resourced (like their employers can't quite take in the fact yet that the revolution's happened). And while ebooks are cheap once they've been produced (see above), actually producing them in the first place is a lot of expense, taking into account the large number of different formats, which generally means that publishers have to farm the formatting work to outside agencies.