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Originally Posted by griffonwing
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.
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Unless you're buying directly from the author, you
should be blaming the publisher for problems like that.
It's the publisher's job to edit the text and format it correctly.
It's the author's job (in fiction) to tell a story that people want to read.
Authors shouldn't try to be copy editors nor typesetters, nor their ebook equivalents. (Unless they enjoy the process.)
In general it's the publishers who are the problem in ebooks production at the moment.
Hopefully, when ePub (or successor) matures and becomes the standard format, and ebook devices become mainstream, and the volume picks up, publishers will start to expend the time on ebook formatting that's required.