[Critteranne]

Originally Posted by ATDrake

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.

Ack. That does sound like some sort of conversion error. A reallyannoying one, too.

Originally Posted by ATDrake

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).

I haven't received an update notification about anything for ages. I had to check Manage Your Contents and Devices to make sure Automatic Update was still turned on. And first I had to check Help to find out where that option was.

Originally Posted by ATDrake

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.

Even E-Reads had their glitches now and then. I once bought a Western reprint (Chet Cunningham) from Fictionwise (an eReads book) that had this weird random error throughout. The incorrect word was followed by the correctly spelled word -- as if someone had corrected misspellings in the new edit, but the original orignla word had been left in. (The original was printed in the 1990s, so who knows what the original file was, or if they had to scan the text.)

I let them know, and they thanked me, checked it again, and let me know that the corrected text was now available. But by then, I had finished the book. Anyway, I told them it was more interesting with the typos.