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Originally Posted by HarryT
Backlist ebook releases are often produced by OCR. Reputable publishers make at least some attempt to correct the inevitable errors that result, of course.
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According to the ebook version of Deryni Rising, Katherine Kurtz's first Deryni book written in 1970, the ebook was generated by a fan who volunteered to scan it for her. A number of the backlist books that I've bought were generated by the author, or author estate, rather than a big name publisher. I didn't notice many errors, but then again, if I notice the error, it has to be pretty egregious. The story is kind of interesting, since Amazon list it as being published by Ace and sold by Penguin Group, yet here is what she said -
"Finally, I owe a special debt of thanks to Melissa Houle, one of the Web mistresses from
www.rhemuthcastle.com, who scanned me the text from her beloved copy of Deryni Rising and probably broke its spine in the process. These first three books, and the three books of the Camber Trilogy, were all written on a typewriter, with carbon copies, in the dark ages before personal computers and word processing. Her kindness has saved me many hours of retyping the manuscript, so that preparing this edition took far less time out of my work on the next new Deryni novel. Another fan has already scanned Deryni Checkmate for me, and I have no doubt that a digital copy of High Deryni will be ready by the time I need to crank it through my machine."
This might be why the Camber books haven't made ebook status yet.