02-07-2013, 05:13 PM | #61 |
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Once you develop the eye for typos you start to find them everywhere. I'm reading a hardback at the moment, published in the 1970s, quality edition, and am amazed at the number of errors in the text, usually missing letters that turn one word into another, "I" where it should have been "It", "ashes" where it should have been "lashes", etc.
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The problems seem to be with author's back catalogues, as opposed to current books, which are OCR'd and then not proof read by the publishers. I've got many examples of books where 'the' has be rendered as 'he', 'rn' as 'm' etc. etc. The worst example of this I've come across is Clive Cussler's Raise the Titanic. Its obviously been OCR'd and NOT proofread as there is a consistent error all through Part 3 of the book where the word 'cornet' has been rendered as 'comet'. Unless you know the story you wouldn't know what was happening especially as what happens here is crucial to the plot. I've attached a small sample of the text to illustrate this. Publishers wouldn't produce a hardback or paperback edition with this lack of quality, so why can't they take the same care with ebooks? |
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02-07-2013, 06:37 PM | #63 |
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Because they never wanted ebooks to come into being in the first place, since it interferes with the hard cover sales.
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02-07-2013, 06:41 PM | #64 |
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That's not true. Back when eBooks were not nearly as popular there wasn't this issue of eBooks cannibalizing hardcover releases. It was because Amazon was discounting best sellers down to $9.99 that the BPHs started the eBook hurting hardcover sales nonsense.
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02-07-2013, 07:32 PM | #65 |
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I agree with the OP 100%.
I actually posted a similar rant not long ago. Yes, the quality is terrible. It's not just ebooks - magazines and newspapers have huge problems. I noticed that the Kindle, Sony, and iPad versions of the WSJ and Financial Times all have many typos and formatting problems not present in print. |
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02-08-2013, 02:09 AM | #66 |
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Actually, in at least some cases, they do produce paperbacks with the same lack of quality. I emailed Voyager to complain about errors I'd found in the Temeraire series of books, and they sent me a full set of paperbacks. I had a look in the Victory of Eagles paperback, and found the same errors as in the ebook. See the attached photos for three examples.
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For anyone to say that 'spelling, punctuation and grammar' are unimportant worries little old me!
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True, but I'd guess a simple spellcheck would find most of them. Would there be many occasions where mutating 'rn' into 'm' would give two existing words?
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Yes, that's the problem. It's a VERY common letter combination for valid words, hence a spell check doesn't really help.
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