Thread: So I'm an anal retentive boring old fart, BUT
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Old 01-24-2010, 04:28 PM   #7
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'Whatever happened to' implies these ideas were ever prevalent in commercial epublishing...
Well, I don't have any hard statistical data, but my subjective impression is that there are more typos and elementary layout errors to be found in books (both paper and digital) now than there were during the 1970's and 1980's - during that time I was working as a library cataloguer and handled many hundreds of new titles.
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