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Originally Posted by Abecedary
From what I can tell, sadly it seems to be fairly common. The copy of Anathem that I purchased from Sony has some strings of what should be small caps, but they're not set in small caps. Other parts of the book have the small caps set just fine, so it's pretty clear that someone/something missed these. The text was pretty much nonsensical as written without having the various quotes/engravings offset in some way. Thankfully it was only a few lines. When I checked out the PDF from my library to compare it suddenly made a lot more sense.
As others have mentioned elsewhere, some books don't have section breaks where they should (the paragraphs just run into each other), and there's the drop cap/initial cap issue mentioned here. Who knows what else is badly formatted out there, especially in books that actually use somewhat complex layout...
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Yeah it has been my experience that ebooks frequently have formatting errors, not to mention spelling ones. It seems to me the smaller publishers are more serious about formating correctly, probably because they are smaller and a number of them sell primarily online.
Hopefully the big publishers will start taking ebook sales more seriously, but I think its going to take a while for them. They seem to be slow to react and mired in tradition of books out of tree's.
Amy