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Originally Posted by crdf
Now in this case, they will not have editors, ...
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.
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Being self published doesn't
have to mean no editing. Plenty of self-pub authors hire freelance editors or at least have peer groups where they try and edit each others work (which is sometimes more successful than other times).
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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?
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eBooks that come from publishers only come from digital files for new releases. Publishers never kept digital files for books once they were printed until fairly recently or if they did it was a PDF copy. So all of those backlist titles are scanned and OCR'd in order to make them digital.
I guess for myself while I got some truly error ridden books in the 2007-2009ish time frame while publishers were more getting up to speed I don't notice anywhere near those kind of problems in the stuff I've gotten the past few years. Sure an occasional error, maybe a couple per book, but that's it.