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Originally Posted by LaughingVulcan
Yes, but Baen makes it very clear that ARCs will have typos, etc. in them and aren't a finished product.
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Agreed. I don't
expect ARCs to be fully corrected.
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To find one in the free library is a bit weird, but still not outside of reason.
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I was
very weird. As mentioned, I have the complete offering, including stuff on CD not posted to the Baen website, and this is the first one I've seen generated from ARC copy instead of final copy.
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I expect different from publishers charging full price (especially full hardback or greater than paperback price!) Doubly so for a DRMed copy that I can't correct the typos in my copy of.
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Me, too. I wasn't upset by it. I was actually amused, especially by encountering author asides to his editor and notes to himself. But because it
was the first one I saw, I felt the need to query, and the response was about what I expected.
My guess is that Baen juggled their schedule a bit to get a title out faster, and that left insufficient time to create the CD version from final proofed copy, because the CD had a longer production lead time than the book it accompanied.
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What it shows is that most publishers do not expend the effort to fully proof an ebook, especially when ported to different formats. You'd think that if the publisher is going to reap the profit on the book, they should be willing to pay for the same level of proofing on it.
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The book
should use the same base manuscript for the copy sent to the printer and the format conversions for ebooks. The conversion software may introduce oddities, but the copy converted should be clean.
In this case, scheduling issues required using the ARC copy for the CD, but that's an exception. All other electronic versions I've seen from Baen have been relatively flawless.
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Dennis