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Originally Posted by starrigger
That's not too far from the truth, in my experience, though it is starting to change. From the author's point of view, it's a real bear. If you want it done right, you have to proof it yourself, and that's a lot of time spent on something that may never earn you more than beer money, at least in the short term. Ereads is getting ready to reissue some of my existing titles, along with some new (to them) titles, and I'm doing what I can to proof the text. (Fortunately, with help from a reader-volunteer who happens to be really good at it.) These are texts from scanning, and despite the fact that they were already proofed by someone else, there are errors such as dropped letters and scenes run together.
I'm doing it because I want them right, but I could never justify it from a financial point of view.
And there's no telling what new errors will appear in format conversion, which I'll never have the chance to catch.
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i can understand how a few typos manage to happen. But this kind of thing shouldn't happens :
http://www.mobipocket.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=14952
I also had a book where a fist letters where like this :
H
ello
instead of
Hello.
Or the first twilight books where the fist part or the sentence of a chapter is all capital.
Neptune crossing sounds like it's properly edited at leat. And the Eragon series too, save for a few glitchs.