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Originally Posted by sriram
Any comments/ views about the quality of books you've been buying .... i.e. the document quality vs the content itself? Or is it only me that thinks that in their anxiety to get ebooks to the store front, publishers are sacrificing quality. Of late, I've been observing an increase in typos, misaligned paragraphs, spell-checkers gone haywire ..... etc etc. The last straw was Scot McClellan's What Happened, that I downloaded from the Sony Store ... the epitome of shoddy workmanship! Example, the name Kristof was repeatedly 'corrected' as Krist of, so the sentence didn't make any sense!!! Left a very poor reading experience.
What say you?
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Were you able to compare the ebook edition against a print edition?
I've seen a decline in quality of print editions, too, as publishers seek to economize. One friend used to be a partner in an editorial production house. Her firm provided copy editing, proofreading, and typesetting services to publishers. She saw the decline in quality, and lamented the number of publishers who no longer bothered with things like proofreading on a mailing list we were both on. Another list member, who was an editor at a major house replied "But copy editing and proofreading are part of the budget for the book, and are always done!" My friend said "Maybe they are in
your house, but that's not the case elsewhere. I'm the one in my shop who has to deal with the folks who
used to pay us to do that, and don't want to incur the expense now."
I wouldn't be at all surprised if the print edition and the electronic edition were prepared from the same faulty source text and had the same errors.
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Dennis