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Originally Posted by omk3
I understand about the less than ideal formatting, but how can new typos appear during this conversion process? I have found some mistakes that seriously hint to ocr, like exclamations marks being transformed to one's or l's (!-1-l).
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Yes, exactly. They're OCR errors. Many times, the Publishers are just scanning the pBook and then rushing it through in order to get out an eBook without putting much time and effort into it. Then they charge us either the same amount, or more.
I've seen a lot of examples where the P2P version of an eBook was better formatted/checked than the Publisher's version. It's pretty sad.
I think it's just an example of the Publishers not taking eBooks seriously. In many cases hey're more interested in keeping the costs down, regardless of the quality, and don't really care much about the eBook market.