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Originally Posted by Tim_A
If it's an old back-catalogue book, the ebook version is probably built from an OCRd scan of the print book.
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This. What a lot of people with the impression that "ebooks are full of errors" fail to recognize is a selection bias driving them toward hastily scanned OCR content and/or "pulp" quality new works which have always been just as riddled with errors in their print editions. Non-fiction, particularly self-help, has also always been plagued by rushed-to-market snake oil, which is going to have print errors in addition to its general worthlessness.
Everyone is also cutting DTBs too much slack. I've found at least minor errors in many, possibly most big-name doorstop novels I've read, and old pulp sci-fi is worse by far.
Any ebook released alongside a new print edition is likely to be identical, because they will be produced from the same source. Whether there's more pulp and snake oil being produced, and whether consumers are more likely to find and purchase pulp ebooks than pulp p-books... well, it's very likely, but has no bearing on the quality of ebooks in general.