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EricDP · 06-24-2010, 10:38 PM

Imagine the effort of manually setting every letter for the printing press for each edition - the detail and precision work that would go into it. People really took pride in their work in those days. And today, a new 'edition' - an eBook - often doesn't get any attention at all. I was at the Stephen R. Donaldson website the other day and he was complaining that his fans were writing him about obvious OCR errors in his eBooks and the publisher wouldn't fix anything without people giving specific examples. The author was powerless to do anything about it. Where is the pride in the published work? An eBook, at full price, should at least have the full quality of the printed book. Bad enough all the restrictions on use.

06-24-2010, 10:38 PM	#7
EricDP Groupie Posts: 165 Karma: 339490 Join Date: May 2010 Device: nook, BlackBerry	Imagine the effort of manually setting every letter for the printing press for each edition - the detail and precision work that would go into it. People really took pride in their work in those days. And today, a new 'edition' - an eBook - often doesn't get any attention at all. I was at the Stephen R. Donaldson website the other day and he was complaining that his fans were writing him about obvious OCR errors in his eBooks and the publisher wouldn't fix anything without people giving specific examples. The author was powerless to do anything about it. Where is the pride in the published work? An eBook, at full price, should at least have the full quality of the printed book. Bad enough all the restrictions on use. Last edited by EricDP; 07-24-2010 at 10:57 AM. Reason: Corrected a typo. No material change.