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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
Baen's books have no notable level of mistakes. (They've got some, but no worse than print. And when they're informed about them, they fix them.) I don't think it's a case of publishers deciding not to allocate the resources--I think they were told that OCR programs work better than they actually do. I think they ran a few test books through a program, and it looked great, and it didn't occur to them that each book would be a bit different.
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The sort of mistakes I am thinking about aren't really down to OCR. The last ebook I read (am still reading), there was a lot of commonly repeated mistakes. Viscous instead of vicious, Norte Dame instead of Notre Dame, Eight-First Street changing to Eighty-First Street and back again every few pages, apostrophes where they shouldn't be and no apostrophe where there should be (Tops Burger's). Then there's general grammar mistakes, words that seem to be missing (he went on rampage), and the wrong words (he held her in her arms and kissed her).
Fair enough it's a small/independent publisher, but I also have real books from the same publisher and while you get maybe 3 or 4 mistakes per book in those, in the ebook versions there's on average 2 per page.