Re: Words, Words, Words

On 7/11/2012 1:15 PM, Stephen J. Tierney III wrote:
> After reading about 50 books for the kindle app on my tablet, I have to
> say the quality control (editing) is much poorer, than with old
> fashioned paper books. At least based on my small sample. It seems that
> for most, they scan in the book (why they don't use the electronic copy
> of the manuscript I have no idea) and its often easy to spot these OCR
> errors 1 instead of l, things like that. I have had at least one book
> where there was a gap of quite a few sentences, I was lucky i also owned
> they physical version, so i could go back and see what the heck was
> missing (Reamde was the title).

The formats are completely different for one thing. And electronic
manuscripts are done in Word, which doesn't carry over to any format
ebooks use. Not to mention that there are generally a lot of changes
between the manuscript and the final book, even in print editions. It's
really not as simple to convert a physical book to an ebook as people
think. Just think of the issues you get when converting a pdf to Word
and that'll give you an idea of just some of the problems of converting
a finished book file to an ebook. (At this stage, it's honestly more
work than goes into a print book.)


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