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Originally Posted by latepaul
Maybe publishers need to get together and create a site where customers can report errors and track whether and when new versions are released. Retailers like Kobo could then get a link to such a site.
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I've wished for the same thing myself. I find myself completely taken away from the reading experience if there are many grammar and spelling errors. I would love to send publishers my findings of their publishing errors but I'm cynical and don't believe they'll do anything about a few spelling mistakes (if that's all there is).
However, I bought an epub (from Kobobooks) by a big publisher, and found a huge format error, informed the publisher by email, and ended up getting them to fix the issue. It was merely a case of an html file which was in the epub but incorrectly showing up (in the wrong place) at the end of the book. I knew this because I own a paperback copy of the novel and was familiar with the story.
Epub publishers should give us an easy way to tell them when we find errors. It would make me more confident in buying their ebooks, if I knew they were committed to fixing spelling/grammar mistakes.
Off topic:
It really bugs me when people use
inflammatory thread titles which actually tell us very little about the problem. The only thing the thread title tells us is there is a problem and someone is angry. I wish people could pay more attention to the title when starting a new thread, so that people will actually have a reason to read the thread and not just open it because they want to find out what the subject actually is.