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Originally Posted by Kali Yuga
Content quality (i.e. proofreading) can use some improvement. I've seen my fair share of poorly formatted documents, but I've also read many books -- rather obscure titles I might add -- that were properly formatted and proofread. Again, I expect that as ebooks gain more market share (and/or as more users complain about it), publishers and retailers will wise up about this.
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We hope. Poor production quality is
not specific to ebooks. Current ebook volumes are normally derived from the same manuscript as the printed version, and will have the same proofreading or lack of it. What we are suffering from currently are moves by some publishers to cut expenses by
not doing things like proofreading. A spell check on the manuscript is deemed sufficient.
Where it can really bite in ebooks are things like Amazon Kindle editions. When enough people click the "I'd like to read this book in a Kindle edition" button to convince Amazon to try to make one, an electronic source file may not exist. The Kindle edition will be created by by scan and OCR of a paper copy. Copy editing and proofreading generally
aren't done. Cost savings again...
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Dennis