Thread: Is it ever okay to condemn a book without even attempting to read it?
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Old 08-12-2017, 10:01 AM   #90
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Originally Posted by JSWolf View Post
Your last point may not be valid. I've read some backlist books that were full of errors that where not originally in the book because after the books were scanned/OCRed, they weren't proofed. So it's not the author who screwed up, it's publisher for allowing unproofed ORCed eBooks to be sold.
I put up with a lot more , when my wallet remains intact. $2.99 for cr*p editing, is still cr*p.

We are condemning the 'book', the old definition, when the print run was 'the book' (edition).
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