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Originally Posted by gmw
A partially facetious response to this jumped into my mind: Big 5 ebook publications are the ones that come down in brown-paper wrapping as if they were pornography.  (With plain/generic covers.) And some non-big-5 but still non-indie publishers, seem to hire trainees to assemble their e-pubs. Around 10% of the books I buy have to be fixed in one way or another - and this applies to trad-pubs as much (or more) as indie. (At least the free stuff here on MR can be relied on to be built properly!) |
I don't mind facetious responses, even partial ones. They are almost a mobileread tradition. In the same spirit I must wonder whether it is more embarrassing to be caught with a newly published top priced Big 5 e-book or with porn?
More seriously, I too have found the e-books in the Patricia Clark Memorial Library to be generally much better formatted and compiled than e-books in general, including Big 5 e-books. Whilst understandable in the case of some Indies, this does not speak well of the Big 5. It is of course aggravated by DRM which amongst its other notable characteristics would if it could make correcting these errors in your copy impossible.