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Old 12-16-2012, 08:19 PM   #7
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Originally Posted by Cdesja5 View Post
The same book is sold to multiple resellers such as Books on Board, Diesel, Sony, Kobo. The same errors will show up in the epub wherever you got it (public library too) and whatever reader you're using. It is a PUBLISHER issue not a Kobo issue. What the resellers are doing is reasonable and it is unreasonable to expect them to do the work of the publisher. You have the choice in the future of not buying books from a publisher that does shoddy work. Expecting resellers to become editors and do the publishers' corrections for them is a non-starter.
Thanks for confirming that the same errors show up on all readers. This should make a solution easier than if each reader manufacturer had its own idiosyncrasies that had to be dealt with separately.

E-reading is a (relatively) new way of reading books, and a way that depends not only on the words penned by the author and formatted on a page by the publisher, but also on the way those words are displayed on the electronic page of an e-reader. Given this, is it unreasonable to expect the publishers and e-book companies to work together to ensure that the reader gets what everybody (author, publisher, retailer) wants them to get?

And given that the e-book companies are the experts in how their e-readers work, is it unreasonable to suggest that they draw up specifications that publishers should follow in order to present the best possible experience to the ultimate reader? I don't regard this as doing the work of the publisher, but as being proactive in working with the publisher for the benefit of the final customer, the reader.
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