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Originally Posted by mandy314
Isn't PanMacmillan a major publisher in your book? - Sorry to quote myself:
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?
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I'm sorry, I didn't remember seeing your examples. I haven't noticed it in my own reading, but backlist OCRed books from major publishers do apparently have a lot of errors; I was thinking in terms of new books in the past 20 or so years of digital publishing.
As to more errors at the end than at the beginning--could just be fatigue and deadline pressure. The proofreader might have spent too much time on the opening chapters and then have to race through the rest to meet a deadline.
Ripplinger: It's not a matter of caring, it's a matter of a deadline. A proofreader can't just take unlimited time to work on a manuscript.