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Originally Posted by Juliette
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I also prefer cars without axles, as they do not oppress me with the car manufacturer's outdated preconceptions about how transportation should work!
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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
For others, the ebook should be produced from the same manuscript that becomes the base for the printed edition.
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What percentage do you suspect eBooks like this to be? In my experience, the numbers are despairingly small... though perhaps if I read more American novels written in the last 2-5 years, I'd feel otherwise. Is recent popular/pulp fiction the bulk of those books that actually get produced from the same source used for the print edition?
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Originally Posted by Moejoe
You do know the classic Stephen King 'The Stand' examples don't you? Some of the most notable (that to this date, and my knowledge, have gone unchanged).
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No, I don't. I've only ever read a single Stephen King book, and do not foresee reading any more... ever, to be honest.
But thank you for the example. It is interesting, and certainly worse than anything I've encountered in my own reading materials... but, those errors are still not as egregious as the errors all too frequent in eBooks. (e.g.: spelling errors that would have been caught even by the most inept spell-checking program, OCR-garbage that has not even the resemblance of language, et cetera)
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Originally Posted by nboshart
I think a big problem is that publisher's don't incorporate (not yet, anyway) ebooks into their original work flow and are converting ebooks, so without another proof read, a lot of typos get in. And makes it more expensive.
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I suspect that's the issue in most cases.
- Ahi