07-18-2011, 01:41 PM | #16 |
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I've found that with ebooks sometimes you get the bear, sometimes the bear gets you. You'll get a book that has both formatting and proof-reading done admirably, and then another one that looks cobbled together by someone with Parkinson's.
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07-18-2011, 01:58 PM | #17 |
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I'm currently reading the US edition and haven't found any editing issues. makes one wonder where that version came from
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07-18-2011, 07:49 PM | #18 | |
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[Person A]"I have something interesting to say!" [Person B]"Ah, but you didn't let me tell you about the 21 course meal I just ate along with all the delicious spices!" [Person A]"Huh?" Notice how there's no paragraph break between A & B. It makes it rather difficult to follow some conversations, which means I have to go back and re-read these parts. There's no excuse for this other than laziness, as I'm sure GRRM had it properly formatted on the Word document he submitted to his publisher. |
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Blaming Amazon does no good at all. Amazon just sells it. It's the publisher that's at fault for any errors.
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07-18-2011, 08:07 PM | #21 |
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makes me feel puzzled and manipulated by the text. it confounds the reader, me. it's terrible. darn near ruined a book for me. you remember the glaring errors as much as the text itself. 11.99 made it that much more infuriating. even tiny errors like the omission or inclusion of a word like the can throw a text off kilter. you notice the strange errors the better you get to know a text. HOWEVER, i'll never revert to print again when i can get it electronically, FTMP.
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I can't say I had many formatting problems and typos with most ebooks - only the occasional typo, but that happens in print as well. But I did notice lots of typos in free books on Guthenberg or Google. |
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This was the topic of a recent thread on TeleRead. The bottom line is something that will permeate many areas of our lives as budgets are cut in the ongoing world economic crisis and jobs are lost to technological (OCR) shortcuts. Proofreaders are icing on the profit cake and expendable unless or until readers vote with their wallets. If they can sell a book with errors, why on earth pay someone to eliminate them unless it impacts sales? There is no pride in product for profit without proofing. One can also wonder if publishers are trying to make a case against eBooks in selling such sloppy products.
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07-19-2011, 09:21 AM | #26 |
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Heck, I see such errors in pbooks.
As someone said in this thread, proof readers were an early casualty of cost savings. Not that most people from the current school system COULD proof read. |
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The problem comes in when you have the text and it's fine in a pBook yet the eBook has errors that the pBook does not.
The reasoning for this is because (IMHO) they use a PDF source and that introduces a new set of errors that don't always get fixed. The book is usually submitted via a Word document. Sure it's a pain in the ass to clean up the mess that Word makes. But, the text doesn't get mangled. So that is not a reason to have different errors. |
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I took your quote literally and searched thru the book looking for "21" until I reread your post and realized it wasn't real dialogue so I definitely could have read right thru it. |
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