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Originally Posted by speakingtohe
I will revise my opinion slightly (Post 2)
OCR or other errors do not bother me unduly unless really really common in a particular book.
But as with hamburgers, or furniture etc. I will tend to do business with a company providing a quality product at a good price.
If I know that company A makes good furniture and Company B, the chair legs tend to come off, well we know where I will shop.
But if there is only a slight quality difference and Company B's chairs are half of the price of company A's chairs, I will be seduced by the price difference.
So far I have only come across intolerable errors in PD books, which were free and was able to replace them with better OCR'd and formatted ones for the same price 
Helen |
In most cases you can not shop for the best version of the book. For most modern authors only one publisher is selling it. You are locked in. You do not get to compare products. This is a case of one publisher offering the book at a lower quality and the same book, at a higher cost, for better quality. in effect you are paying the publisher more for a product that should have been produced correctly the first time.
I own a jewelry store and am a bench jeweler. That would be the same as me offering to size your ring and doing a crappy job, or offering to do it correctly for a higher price. To me that is price gouging your customers.
Apache