[Catlady]

Originally Posted by DuckieTigger

But it is a writing style. You assume it is an OCR error, because you would have put a comma.

Yeah, I would have put a comma because that's the correct punctuation. Example:
"Hi. babes," she said.

Either there's a comma after hi, or babes takes an initial cap. The way it's written isn't an authorial choice or a writing style, it's incorrect.

Again, please do not assume that OCR is to blame. If it was OCR it would have run words together that don't make sense together.

Seriously? An error is an error is an error. Those words do not exit in the English language.

Budget matters. A midlist book will not get the TLC it should have. If all you are chasing dreams of the next big hit, and financially depend on it, then the poor midlist book stays forgotten. It will end up in the back of the store anyway.

A midlist book will not get the hype, the publicity tour, the big first printing. That's the difference. The production process is the same.

Nobody is making you pay it.

It's a ripoff, and nobody should pay that price for a shoddy product. Why are you trying so hard to justify that kind of shoddy workmanship? Why are you defending something that's indefensible?

And I totally agree with you. The price is too high for what you get. To me the price of ALL books from the Big5 are too high unless on deep discount.

Of course, bash the big five, even though they are not responsible for the book in question, which doesn't list a publisher for the digital version. This is some slapdash, overpriced product created without the slightest bit of effort to make it minimally acceptable.