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Originally Posted by Tdew
I'm getting annoyed with the typos found in purchased ebooks from Sony's store. Though I'm not sure who is responsible for the conversion, the publisher or the sellers, the quality is frequently very bad. If they are using OCR software to make the conversion, there still should be someone proof reading - if they are going to sell the books at bookstore prices.
How do I make my complaints known?
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I found issues like that with every single bookstore and file format I've tried (bought at least 1200 ebooks over the years).
Misspelled author's names, no naming conventions (first-name last-name or last-name, first-name). And that's just title and author.
It goes on with missing covers.
Then it's often enormous margins.
In the content we have spelling errors, probably due to sloppy OCR.
Sometimes, books from the "dark net" are way more professional.
Unfortunately, I haven't found an indicator yet.
Happened with lots of publishers or bookstores.
Concerning file formats, my gut feeling says, Microsoft reader has been the most carefully prepared format so far. But I'm still waiting for a reader able to handle it, since Pocket PCs are dead.