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Originally Posted by Tuna
Most of the people who work to bring you a physical book also work to bring you an electronic book. The author, editor, proof reader, cover artist, publisher and so on all contribute to create that work.
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I've recently purchased
A Hero of Our Time,
The Double & The Gambler,
The Brothers Karamazov, and
The Portable Chaucer.
Of that list of minor classics (which you might hope went some care into), the first contained a few indentation issues as well as a few typos/errors, the second contained about a half-dozen glaring typos, as well as a (superfluous) whitespace following every first letter of every chapter (as well as numerous other issues), in the third the footnotes/endnotes were missing, and the last one I have not looked at yet. While Fictionwise promised to forward each of my issues to the respective publishers, there is no mechanism to tell me an updated version is available on their website, so I'll most likely 'just have to guess' (if it happens at all in my lifetime).
Pretty sad state of affairs, non?