Originally Posted by
OFSO
TD: Mrs OFSO says she can't believe how many mistakes she finds on the hundreds* of books she downloads for her Kindle. "Don't the expletive deleteds ever bother checking the text ?"
If you're talking about old trade-published books, it would appear not. Many publishers just seem to be OCR-ing the text and throwing it out there with minimal proofreading. I've seen complaints about e-books from well-known publishers with insane levels of typos making them almost unreadable.
But that doesn't really surprise me. Lately I've seen typos in the back cover blurb on trade-published paperbacks, so if they can't even get those couple of hundred words right they're unlikely to get the interior right.