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Originally Posted by bizzybody
Typos. BAEN has them a-plenty.
I've read all of the free BAEN e-books they've released on the CD-ROMs included with some of their hardcovers. I'm pretty certain they've all had typos.
BAEN does eARCs (electronic Advance Reader Copies) and charges money for them. ARC buyers are supposed to do things like proofread and provide feedback to the author. Sometimes the eARC and the final version have significant changes from reader feedback, but usually not.
But still the typos persist.
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Everyone has typos. But if you point them out (be specific!) to Arnold Bailey of Webscriptions, THEY GET FIXED!
eARCs are not for people to proofread and report typos. They're to get extra money out of people addicted to particular authors or series. You're not expect to provide feedback. Baen has professional editors who do that. The point of eARCs is that there hasn't been time yet between the author handing in the manuscript and the eARC appearing for the final copy editing to have been done.
As for unicode, the great tragedy of unicode is that they didn't work out the utf8 encoding first (& that we'd need more than 65535 characters). If they had done that, we'd never have had utf16 and utf32, and the horror of BOMs and surrogate pairs.