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Originally Posted by starrigger
Ficbot, to expect the author to fix this is like expecting Sisyphus to make it to the top of the hill. The system is simply not set up to enable authors to exert any quality control. (At least in my experience.)
It's not like they send us e-galleys, though you could argue that they should. But that's never going to work, when there are all these different formats, each requiring proofing.
Maybe if we ever shake down to one standard format, we'll have a system where the author actually gets to (and is expected to) proof the ebook.
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What gets me though is given some of the errors I did find, how could they have gotten there? I've never seen Calibre do anything to actually change things in such a way. And the thing is, it didn't take much in the way of proofing to find some of the errors. Just a cursor glance through the book would have made someone aware of errors. Enough so to then have to go back and get things fixed.