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Originally Posted by Ti-Ron
From my experience, ebooks don't have the same traitment as a paper book. Normaly, editor ships the book to be converted to outsourced production. Many times, there's no proof reading on the e version...
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Maybe it is a case of too many books too little time. One company that seems to produce quality ebooks is Hard Case Crime. They only publish older books and less than 6 most years. I think that most of the books are still in copyright but long out of print.
My understanding is that it takes two weeks to a month for a meticulous person to scan, proof and format a 200 page book. I could be way of base here and scanning and OCR are much improved since I tried it 20 years ago, but even at a minimum wage you are probably looking at $400 to $1,600 per book. Well worth it IMO, but if you have 20,000 books you want to publish you have to have a lot of meticulous people working on them and I doubt there are enough qualified people available to proofread all of the books being sold on Amazon.
Helen .