Comments on: Does Penguin Care About eBooks?

By: kirk

kirk — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 09:56:52 +0000

I understand. But as I’ve read through the book, I’ve come across plenty of other typos, the kind that show they come from scanning. If they just dump a scanned book into an ebook file without proofing it – especially for a classic such as Dubliners – they’re doing a worse job than those who provide the same books for free. And I bought the Penguin edition precisely because I am concerned about fidelity to the correct text.

By: HammerOfTruth

HammerOfTruth — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 01:59:57 +0000

Sorry, i’m not defending them. Just wanted to show that they appear to want to be one of the premire providers of ebooks if the tech demo is anything like what they end up making.

I’m sure you’re not the only one who has purchased this ebook and been disappointed.

Maybe the demo and your book have something in common?
Like some previous employees loosing their jobs over such a crappy conversion.

You should email them and see what they say. They might just give you credit, or maybe they’ll do it right this time.

By: kirk

kirk — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 18:57:24 +0000

They’ve been selling this book for a while, so, no, I don’t buy the idea of an “oversight”. The typos suggested that the book was scanned, not simply converted from an existing digital file (which is certainly possible, since the Penguin edition is probably quite old).

By: HammerOfTruth

HammerOfTruth — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 18:54:27 +0000

I think it’s probably a glitch or someone didn’t really do the conversion very well. Maybe because they are busy preparing new stuff for the ipad like this tech demo they did.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdExukJVUGI

I think it was just an oversight.

By: kirk

kirk — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 18:45:33 +0000

Thanks for passing it on. I’m curious as to what they’ll say.

The snow is almost melted on my lawn. It was about 15 degrees today.

By: footagehead

footagehead — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 18:09:19 +0000

I have a close friend that works at Penguin, and I passed this on, in hopes it was just a glitch.

Hope your not still snowed in over there. It hit 20c over here in the Charente….the California of France !