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Originally Posted by ZodWallop
I'd likely have less patience with the Matt Reilly errors than the Spinrad ones. The Reilly book is by a big 5 publisher whereas the Spinrad book was likely OCR'd from a paperback and self published.
I find myself wondering if the version of Mind Game Amazon is selling is better or worse than the fan-scanned version that I'm sure is floating around out there (I assume any/all old sci-fi have fan-scanned editions). Maybe he should follow the Walter Jon Williams example?
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One thing that I've noticed is that some people tend to scan and "publish" dead authors' books on Amazon (and I'm sure other platforms) simply based on the idea that they are a lot less likely to get into trouble. Some of these can be quite slip shod, others can be quite good. I ran across a copy of Doc Smith's Lensman book on Amazon a while back that was absolutely unreadable, it had so many errors. That's a lot coming from me. My guess is that the "publisher" did not have the rights to it. Amazon eventually pulled it.