Thank you for answering.
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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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Of course. I wasn't trying to say that the quality is lower for self-published, but to point out differences.
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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.
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I hate the OCR scan but if a .pdf file is to my humble knowledge a publishing file that contains a lot of information, layers, fonts and printing presets. Of course I am not familiar with the book publishing industry, so thank you for the information.
I used to do OCR scanning few years back and it was really bad. Maybe it is from lack of a proper scanner but gosh the amount of editing required was stunning. You could actually sit and type it and get a better result. I hope it's not as difficult nowadays.
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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.
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I'm sure quality will be getting better. I think he most errors I've noticed from the free books provided trough Amazon. One of them was missing lines, it was like this message. Someone typed it and did not read after that even ones.
One think that worries me though is if I will be able to understand if there is a problem in the text. If it is a book you can see a page is missing or another printing error, but with an English book, and especially science fiction for me is more difficult. Sometimes the way authors write is confusing for me and I'm just wondering if the file is ok. I guess it is just insecurity from my lack of knowledge.
P.S. Beautiful cats.