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Originally Posted by HarryT
This is precisely why many of us who upload books here spend some many hours proof-reading them.
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Yeah, and that is exactly why I've downloaded so many of my favorite classics from MB, replacing those I've accumulated from Gutenberg and even purchased back before I found this place. "Lovingly" formatted and uploaded by folks at MB is just the right phrase.
Not to disparage the efforts of folks that upload to Gutenberg because they're doing it largely to "save" books from disappearing and hallelujah to that. But it is very irritating to buy a book and find typo's and errors all through it. And in no way is that a published author's fault unless they're self-publishing.
In my opinion it comes from 3 things. 1) ebook stores just snagging stuff from Gutenberg or IA and sticking it up for sale without bothering to proof them. 2) ebook stores grabbing stuff off the darknet and offering it for sale without a licensing agreement with any publisher and doing it until they get caught and "notified" (and yes, I've just recently become aware of how often that happens). and 3) Just bad publishing by publishers pushed to cost cutting measures and not doing the right thing -their jobs-, hiring poor editors and proofreaders or skipping proofreading which is quite obviously going on.