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Originally Posted by starrigger
The publishers and retailers have systems in place (good or bad), and they're not going to change their work-flow for every individual writer. And how many writers do you think are even remotely versed in ebook production (or want to be)?
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It seems to me you have a publisher who is too lazy to proof a copy for sale. It matters not if it's a pbook or ebook, it's still for sale. It still reflects on the author MORESO than the publisher.
If I read a book, and the words are wrong, text is not formatted correctly, punctuation is off, words are misspelled, etc. I'm not gonna go "$#% publishers cant get this right", I'm gonna look at the book title, blame the author, and never pick up that author again.
If the publisher is not willing to treat you as an individual, I would look for another publisher. Either that, or self-publish your works on your own site. If you've sold enough books (as in different books, not multiple copies of each), then you've garnered enough of a fan base to successfully sell books from your own site.
It's that, or live with the lottery of how your ebook will eventually be sold.