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Anais,
"Ignorance" and "prejudice" might be overly hard-sounding, but comments like "nothing but bad and unaccomplished authors," "can't hack it in real publishing," "I can't read on a computer screen," and "it'll just get corrupted or deleted," are the kind of comments I regularly hear about e-books (outside of this forum, obviously). Those are not the comments from well-informed people... those are people who are mis-informed, or behind the state of the industry, and are making subjective judgements as gospel.
I think eReading is unknown to far more readers than those for whom it is considered unpleasant. Unfortunately, too often it is the "unpleasant" comments that keep people from trying e-books in the first place. We're just trying to make sure the "It's great, try it, you might like it" voice gets heard, too.
Yes, e-book posters should be taking care when posting classics--or any material, for that matter--to proof and format properly. I'm not aware of what Sony's doing to their Classics line... are you saying Sony is not proofing or formatting its books? If so, someone should tell Sony in no uncertain words what damage they are doing (and hope that they care).
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