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Also remember that Kobo don't own the copyright on these books. The publishers either own it or have rights to it. Which means that Kobo can't just go changing the text of these books without some form of agreement. They probably do have agreements in place in order to produce kepubs but I doubt that gives them to right to fix typos in epubs, and even with kepubs I suspect the publishers would want to be consulted. |
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I forget the details of my testing, but I'm fairly sure that the No space following italicized words was an artifact introduced by "koboization." Is that still happening with new books? or is it just old books that haven't been fixed? In either case, the epub probably doesn't have this particular error.
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BTW I regard the things I've mentioned, and the things other posters have mentioned such as unexpected font-size changes, not as typos, but as programming errors. They are relatively small in number and it seems to me -- a non-programmer, I hasten to say -- that it would not be a major task to fix them, at least for new books. Thanks for your detailed reply to my post. |
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However, I bought an epub (from Kobobooks) by a big publisher, and found a huge format error, informed the publisher by email, and ended up getting them to fix the issue. It was merely a case of an html file which was in the epub but incorrectly showing up (in the wrong place) at the end of the book. I knew this because I own a paperback copy of the novel and was familiar with the story. Epub publishers should give us an easy way to tell them when we find errors. It would make me more confident in buying their ebooks, if I knew they were committed to fixing spelling/grammar mistakes. Off topic: It really bugs me when people use inflammatory thread titles which actually tell us very little about the problem. The only thing the thread title tells us is there is a problem and someone is angry. I wish people could pay more attention to the title when starting a new thread, so that people will actually have a reason to read the thread and not just open it because they want to find out what the subject actually is. |
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