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Originally Posted by wizwor
It costs money to edit a book. It costs more to edit a book properly. Graphic artists are not free. Good ones are expensive. If people are willing to fund the collaboration of a team of editors, writers, and artists for a book, teams of editors, writers, and artists will line up to create works of art. As long as people insist on damn-near-free books, there will be compromises -- especially in the special interest areas where volumes are low.
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Graphic artists usually work in advertising and are the ones that come up with logos and posters, etc., but I get your point.
I would assume that most writers these days are using some sort of word processing program and not an old typewriter. Based on that, how hard it is to format a Word or Word Perfect document? Obviously, this isn't the case for old OCR'd books, but the newer stuff should at least have better formatting/spelling/punctuation.
I'm not asking for "damn-near-free books", but when the ebook costs more than the printed version, there's no excuse for that. (Again, talking about newer books)