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From: "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,comp.misc
Subject: Re: ebooks
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 08:19:49 +1100
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"RS Wood" <rsw@therandymon.com> wrote in message 
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> On 2014-03-26, Shmuel Metz <spamtrap@library.lspace.org.invalid> wrote:
>> What about the error rates for reprints, e.g., are their more errors
>> with raw OCR or with editied OCR?
>
>
> You just reminded me of something that irritates me: a surprising number
> of ebooks have errors the print editions don't.  I think the old
> publishers are reluctantly producing ebooks, but not taking the heart to
> do it right: they're OCRing print editions or something, and not making
> much effort to correct errors.  I can't give you a specific example but
> I read a novel published by a house like Penguin, and it had a number of
> errors that looked suspiciously like a faulty optical character
> recognition routine.

Presumably because their operation is now much more
marginal than it was economically so they choose not
to pay the substantial cost of decent proof reading
and are reluctant to get it done in India etc.

> Yet, they charge full price for the ebook.

Likely because they don’t want to undercut what
market they still have with the dead tree books.

> Fire and pitchforks, I say!