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Originally Posted by ficbot
I am reading one right now which has characters named Jimmy, Jeannie and Jordy. I am about halfway through, and at least once, they have said 'Jeannie' when they clearly mean 'Jimmy' from the context. Several times, Jimmy has been called 'Jimmie.' And sometimes with quotation marks, there will be words after the close quote that should have been within the quote e.g.
'It's okay' Dad, she said.
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I've had this problem with a lot of ebooks from Fictionwise too. Mainly it seems to be coming from certain authors/small publishers. I'm not talking about a formating problem, or bad scanning like a 1 instead of a l, or ": o" instead of to. But names getting mixed around, objects changing (a paper notepad magically became a laptop halfway through one book), areas where changes had been marked to be changed, but no one went back to change them; like a sentence that says, "He walked slowly down the hallmovedeasilydownthehall." Just like that, a replacement phrase tacked on without spacing. What really gets me is that spell or grammar check would take care of those. But really, it comes down to sloppy editing and writing. These are obviously gallies if not third drafts, definitely not a final product. And while they are small authors and publishers, they have dozens of books or stories out on Fictionwise and other sites. It's ridiculous.