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Originally Posted by MovieBird
I haven't looked to see if A Dance with Dragons was ever fixed, but when it came out the formatting was an absolute pile of steaming muffin, and these were issues specific to the eBook edition.
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I am terribly annoyed by poor formatting and typos in ebooks - and I struggle to understand how experiences seem to vary so much. Almost all ebooks I buy have problems - some more glaring than others. Yet, quality control is terribly low, compared to printed books.
Which gets me to the above... A Dance with Dragons. A new book - and a big title, at that, with huge sales. And ridiculously bad formatting. Paragraph breaks in dialogue were missing so often that it frequently became hard to try to track which character was speaking.
I, for one, think this is becoming a huge issue. And it's not just books. I get the Wall Street Journal and the Financial Times on my Kindle as well (previously, I had SONY subscriptions for both). It's a horror-show. Typos, missing spaces, poor formatting, pictures and tables associated with the wrong articles, table of contents linked to the wrong articles... it's such a sloppy job. I try to ignore it, but it does irk me, especially after paying over $24 a month for the WSJ.