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Originally Posted by jbjb
I've certainly seen plenty of pbooks with proof-reading errors, so it's not exclusively an ebook problem, but I'll certainly grant you that its worse in ebooks. This is particualrly the case with ebooks which have been produced by OCR from paper masters. If/when pbooks are typically produced from digital sources, there's no reason why there should be any difference.
If you're confident that publishers will manage to get both proof-reading and typography right, then I certainly hope you're right. I have my doubts, however, and of the two I think the content accuracy is much more important so I'd rather they focused their management attention in that direction.
Clearly others will differ in their assignment of relative importance - I just find typos, spelling errors, grammatical errors and the like intensely irritating but don't really care about typography beyond basic legibility. I've spent too many years (decades!) reading long technical documents in vi on VT100 terminals to be at all upset by the limitations of a reflowed epub! :-)
/JB
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I agree with most of what you wrote. Content *is* more important. But if the eBook reading public actually succeeds in permanently getting publishers to relax typographic standards for eBooks, it will be a definite loss... without necessarily, a proportional gain... if indeed any gain at all.
Such is my fear... albeit not a big fear, because I don't see paper book reading public as staunchly demanding quality typography either, and most publishers still go into the effort and expense to produce books that exceed the presumable minimum typographic expectations by a lot.
- Ahi