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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
In the ebook market, certainly. Many people have verified typo's and OCR errors in ebooks, that are the result of auto-OCR programs with the "correction" obviously being "throw it into Word and run the spellcheck." So any OCR error that resulted in a real word stays in the final copy.
In pbooks, less so, but there have been the same kinds of things: there, they're, and their applied randomly; apostrophe abuse that any fourth-grade student should be able to catch; weird hyphenations not caught.
I don't think any (large) publishing houses have eliminated human proofreading, but they've cut back on it, expecting programs to catch the bulk of it and assuming readers won't care about what gets through.
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Yup.
The French harry potter 5, in addition to a bad print, also have some errors big enough for me to notice (As i'm seriously dyslexic, that means a lot).
It gets my opus to crash.
