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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
Non existent proofreading is a major problem for paper books as well. An old friend used to be a VP at an editorial production house that did copy editing, proofreading, that typesetting for publishers. She lamented the lack of it on a mailing list we were on. Another member of that list was an editor at a major publisher, who said "But copy editing, proofreading, and such are part of the budget for the book, and are always done!" "Maybe they still are in your house", replied my friend, "but I'm the one who gets to deal with the ones who used to pay us to do it, and don't do so any more." They were trying to cut costs, and decided proofreading was an unnecessary expense...
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Dennis
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I keep hearing anecdotes like this on mobileread... but to date I have yet to come across a single non-vanity-published paper book that has the sort of errors seemingly every eBook I've read contains.
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