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I must say the Kindles are usually full of errors. I was wondering. For a lot of self-published authors it is better to sell e-books. If a self-published paperback costs £6-8, the author earns less then £1, but if a kindle costs £2-4, they earn maybe more then £2. I can ask friends for more exact numbers.

Now in this case, they will not have editors, but when a book sells to a publisher the cost is not only for the paper, and ink but for advertising of the book and edits. For those e-books that come from such a publishing houses I don't understand why they would be full wit mistakes. I would think they are using the same files that were edited?

Anyway I can see some logic why a self-published book will have more errors then a book that has been sold trough a publishing house. I would probably not be able to notice my own mistakes as well.

EDIT:

Then there is this other thing I have noticed. Often e-books will have UPDATED info. Like quotes before each chapter, that have been added after the prints of the paperbacks. That is good, but shouldn't those be provided at least to the people that have e-readers, but have bought the paperback? I know this would be too much to deal with but if I was the author I would make such small amounts of text, that are often taken from other authors (quotes) free, either trough a website, e-mail or something else.