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Originally Posted by HarryT
But backlist ebooks are generally created by OCR when no digital copy is available. How do your observations lead you to the conclusion that your book is "obviously sourced from a pirated book" rather than from a scan made by the publisher?
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Well, the first observation was the basis of this thread: the first book has many of the exact same flaws as an unauthorised version.
Therefore it is reasonable to posit that the publishers, in both cases the Estate, would have the same M.O. in publishing the books.
The second book was exhibiting many of the same types of flaws. While they were scan errors, someone had obviously done a proofing job in it, but not a professional one, more like a rushed one by someone who scanned the book, ran a spell check on it, and got it out to wherever unauthorised books are released to.
I think that if the second book was a fresh scan, greater care would have been taken to proof it. In fact, the second book is of a much poorer quality than the first book. I think that the Estate may have been in the throes of discovering how much work it takes to proof a scanned book.
I'm sure that if I were to look for additional alternative versions of the book, I'd probably find the version it was cloned from. But frankly, I'd rather just read the book than try to prove its providence.