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Originally Posted by HarryT
Some of the backlist books published by "Gateway SF" have been pretty dire in terms of OCR errors, poor formatting, words run together, etc, although in fairness to them their more recent releases have been a lot better.
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That would explain it. I'm not much of a backlist ebook buyer.
Backlist stuff is tricky. I'd probably be upset if every backlist title I bought was subpar too, but at the same time... I'm willing to accept the fact that "reruns" just aren't going to get "New Book" treatment (resources, time, attention, money). Nature of the beast. The only hope the backlist really has--in terms of increasing quality--is if the technology gets a lot better, and/or some sort of crowd-sourced proofing system gets adopted.
Cheap/perfect isn't going to happen, and expensive/perfect (but old) isn't going to sell.