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Originally Posted by GeoffR
For me the big step-change was the successful front-lighting of e-ink, that is what made me take the leap from paper to ebooks. All the other improvements in pixel density, contrast ratio, processor speed, etc. have been minor in comparison to that.
But the area that I see as having the biggest room for improvement is on the publishing side. If publishers could manage to work out how to consistently produce ebooks without spelling and punctuation mistakes, and without glaring formatting errors, then that would do more to improve my reading experience than any hardware or software innovations ever could.
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Geoff,
It is not publishers that are putting out error laden books. It is people that don't read, or don't care about errors in the books they read, that are publishing no one but me will see this book until it is published. They do no proofreading. No other eyes but their own. And they refuse to spend anything to make their "book" better.
They will say in a public forum (not this one) that readers don't care about errors, readers just want something to read. Yes, they are getting validation there.
Note I still refuse to give any lip service to that forum. I will name it privately.
Sorry I cannot call those people authors. My personal term is money grabbers.