I’m reading The Club Dumas on my kindle right. Professionally published, big-name author…the kindle is riddled with typos, missing punctuation, and misspellings. I know from the errors just what happened. Rather than have the text retyped, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt decided to save a buck and did an OCR scan of the book – with ZERO copy-editing of the resulting text. (Aside: how can you tell? Look for missing punctuation and misspelled words like ft instead of it, wam instead of warn, all sure signs of OCR errors. That’s why you copy-edit OCR-generated text.) This is a multi-million-dollar company playing fast and loose. I’ve seen things like this again and again in my long years as a reader. Missing pages, bad book design, no copy-editing – now with ebooks, it’s just the same. Not to knock certain writers, but when you read them, you ask yourself: “Who did he bribe to get a publishing contract?” So please, let’s hear no more about the supposed superiority of conventional publishing.
Posted on: Fri, 08 Nov 2013 00:05:38 +0000
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