Thread: Cheaper e-books will kill us, says publisher
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Old 03-22-2009, 08:18 PM   #249
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Originally Posted by cerement View Post
I think it's because most of the converters here are starting with Gutenberg texts (or archive.org texts or Google Books), stuff that has been OCRed, then proofed a couple of times, but not to any major extent. We're just adding another layer of proofing.
The internet Archive text files at archive.org are not proofed. Nor are the text files derived from google books. The OCR from both leaves an awful lot to be desired. I have just spent all day cleaning one up.
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