I recall reading some of the David Eddings books on my kindle a fair while
back. I'm guessing they just fed the existing books into optical character
recognition software as there were a fair number of misspellings. They
obviously didn't have anyone proof read them post conversion.
Allan
From: Richard Williamson
Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2015 12:35 PM
To: feistfans-l
Subject: Re: Faerie Tale
*makes a minor disagreement shrug*
I see a lot of books that are issued at the same time in print and
electronic editions, and then some of the ebooks go through a "maintenance
release" that fixes typos and layout. You can see this happen when you boot
iBooks for the first time after a while, and see a downloads-available
badge, letting you know that some of your books have updated versions
available.
I haven't yet seen an ebook be corrected for major plot screwups, however :)
I've gone the self-pub route, and I know I can fix anything that a customer
points out. I upload a fixed file to take the place of the existing file;
it goes live after Apple/Amazon take a look at it (takes about 24hrs), and
then the people who've paid for it get the "download available" badge in the
app telling them to download the fixed version, and new buyers will only get
the updated version when they buy the book.
But, yeah, 100% of the text is the same on first release, after some time
they may diverge.
rip
On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 10:06 PM, Raymond Feist <[email protected]>
wrote:
On May 27, 2015, at 6:06 PM, Scott Ponton <[email protected]> wrote:
I'm not worried, it was intended more as a sort of sarcastic comment.
People come and go on these lists as interest waxes and wanes, it's the
way of things.
I am surprised at myself for not getting round to reading Faerie Tale
sooner though. I know it's been around for a while, and my mum had the
paperback, but it disappeared. .. probably my no good book losing brother,
but impossible to prove. I now have the e-book version and am enjoying it
greatly.
A question about e-books in general though, maybe Ray or another writer on
here can answer, is there any difference between e-book and print versions
in terms of the actual text? Is it an automated process of simple
conversion (like if the manuscript I'd typed on a word processor)or would
someone have to retype it?
eBooks should be identical to print, unless specifically noted, such as
“revised,” or “abridged.”
Best R.E.F.
