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Old 05-10-2015, 03:32 AM   #32
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Originally Posted by SteveEisenberg View Post
While it's hard to describe what I mean by quality, it has only a smiggen to do with copy editing errors.

I read about fifty eBooks a year, and, except for a few uncorrected scans gotten from openlibrary.org, I've never noticed a major publisher Overdrive (or 3M, or Axis360, or OneClickDigital) eBook as bad as you describe.

Then, I'm not a good copy editor myself, so maybe I'm just lucky in unconsciously ingoring the errors.
Copy editing is only a small part of the entire publishing process.

However, with ebooks, then copy editing is a big part of the process if the book is being scanned. And the BPHs just aren't doing it.

I have one of the early Tom Clancy books (purchased from Kobo so it's a BPH book, and without a discount I might add). It is basically an uncorrected scan. At least a thousand errors. Entire pages with massive scan errors. And this is one of the major authors of the last 30 years who has made the BPH millions of dollars.
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