The Dismal State of e-Book Editing – Case: Terry Pratchett’s “Snuff”
October 17, 2011 · Posted in Art & Entertainment, Books & Comics, DRM & Online Distribution, Tech & Gadgetry · 5 Comments
Ever since I bought the Kindle a year ago, I’ve been a big fan of e-books and this autumn I’ve spent quite some time learning to make them. One thing has started to annoy me about many commercial ebooks: far too many of them are littered with all kinds of encoding errors: extra line breaks, missing spaces between words, indents turning into empty lines, etc. It seems like this problem has been getting worse, not better, during this last year, and now I ran into the total nadir of this: the Kindle-edition of “Snuff” by Terry Pratchett.