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Originally Posted by DJHARKAVY
My wife is a freelance proofreader, and she gets pretty much all books as pdf's these days and makes corrections to them.
If they have the book as a digital copy, and they proof it as a digital copy, why should there be major errors in the digital version?
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I hate to say this, but the PDF is sometimes used as for the print version and then the PDF is given out to the eBook department to create the various versions from. And we all know that a novel length PDF cannot be converted to any other format without errors. So, then we get shoddy proofreading of this PDF conversion and it goes out with errors that need not be there.
What needs to be done with new eBooks is to keep the book in electronic format and keep that up-to-date with all edits/changes/etc. but in a format that can easily be used to make different eBooks formats out of. That way, we get the same text that goes to the print edition.