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Originally Posted by Catlady
The two examples of error-filled books that were specifically given in this thread were both from small indie publishers.
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Isn't PanMacmillan a major publisher in your book? - Sorry to quote myself:
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Originally Posted by mandy314
An example - Winston Graham: The Little Walls (from 1955, republished as ebook in 2013 by Bello (PanMacmillan))
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Okay - error-free to error-filled has a wide margin. I agree with you that new releases of ebooks (by major publishers) are as error-free as it get compared to pbooks - the occasional typo may be a given.
But if you buy ebook-re-releases of books which have been out of print for many years there is a good chance to get more than the occasional error - this is my experience at least and with major publishers. I think the books have to prepared for digital processing and that is the basis for the ebook-specific errors like OCR-artefacts, bad formatting, incomplete TOCs etc.
More examples:
- Nancy Pickard novels by Pocketbook (Simon & Schuster) from the 80's
- Ross Thomas novels by mysteriouspress from the 70's
Btw: is it only me, or will there be - if you have an error-filled book - more errors at the end of the book compared to the beginning?