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Originally Posted by jbjb
Partly financial allocation, but mostly allocation of management focus/prioritisation. The thing that really needs to happen for proof reading accuracy to be improved is for the management teams of publishers to believe that it's very, very important. Given that priority is always a relative thing, increasing the priority of something else (e.g. typography) will decrease the priority of proof reading.
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But this is primarily a problem with eBooks, anecdotal stories of random people having encountered printed books with typos before.
eBooks, as long as they are cared as little about as they are now, are not going to be assigned more resources. And once they are assigned more resources, publishers will start to see them as reflecting on them... meaning they will be compelled to improve them overall, not based on some bizarre lop-sided prioritization of (what most people in the profession would doubtless see as) equally valid concerns.
This is, I think, why I and Abecedary are skeptical of suggestions that typographic attention is somehow a threat, however indirect, to the content integrity of eBooks.
- Ahi