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Originally Posted by mr ploppy
Not unless I have been VERY unlucky in my first steps into ebook buying territory. Every one I have bought so far has had spelling mistakes every few pages.
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Welcome to the wonderful world of cost cutting.
I'm on a list mostly populated with folks involved in publishing. A couple of years back, one of the posters, who was VP and an editorial production house that provided copy editing/proofreading services to publishers lamented the decline in such basics, as publishers decided to save money by not doing it. Another poster, who was an editor at a major house said "But such things are part of the standard budget of the book, and are
always done!" "Maybe they still are in
your house", said the original poster, "but I'm the one who gets to talk to clients who used to pay us to do it and don't do so any more!"
The problem goes farther back. I knew one editor who was chided by her boss for trying to do a proper line-edit on a manuscript. The boss wanted to know why she was investing the effort, since the glory was in acquisitions.
Declining standards of quality are an on going issue, and have been for some time. The problem is that doing it right
costs, and no one wants to spend the money.
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Dennis