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Originally Posted by HarryT
I must respectfully disagree, ducks. For backlist books where no electronic version exists there certainly is a choice to be made about what level of proofing to do after OCRing the book. More proofing = higher cost. For books with a relatively low anticipated sales volume, such as old "mid-list" SF, it's probably not economic to aim to produce a completely error-free book at a sensible price. It's a matter of finding the optimal balance between quality and price. Too many errors and you'll annoy the reader; too high a price and the potential reader won't buy it in the first place. I can live with an error every 10 pages, say. I can't with live an error on every page.
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My error tolerance is higher than yours, and probably I don't pick out the grammar mistakes as well as you do
I read as many, probably a lot more, backlist books as I do newly published and I find that the quality has gone up considerably. I notice no errors, or a trivial amount of errors, at all in most of them.
Still the publishers should, and my opinion is that most of them do, put out a comparable product to the paper books they sell. If they can't get it proofread, they should not publish until they can, backlist or not.
Helen