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Originally Posted by Critteranne
A lot of the reviewers are complaining about spelling and grammatical errors. That makes no sense to me as all the Open Road Media books are reprints of previously published (and thus usually well editied  ) books, often from big publishers and big name authors. Has anyone else read this edition? Could there be scanning errors or other conversion errors? |
FWIW, I've previously bought Open Road reprints of some of my favourite authors which happened to carry some fairly serious non-obvious defects, such as the edition that randomlysmushed words together throughoutthe book.
Or the one where the opening paragraph of the next scene was appended to the end paragraph of the preceding scene, again throughout the book, which is something that a casual reader who'd never read it before might not have caught.
Admittedly, those were with titles that were released years ago and possibly their workflow has improved (however, I never did get an Amazon notification that my copies were now fixed, and there seems to be no available update for my versions in my Kindle account).
So, given the apparent age of the book, and the likelihood that ORM might need to have a little more quality control in the proofreading area before making their releases, it's entirely possible that at some point, there were conversion errors that got overlooked (and possibly still remain).
That said, if
Thin Air had been a Fictionwise title, it's likely that Open Road got it via their acquisition of the old E-Reads imprint, and the latter generally had quite decent versions of the books they put out, though for all we know, ORM may have decided to order a re-scan or whatever.