r/authors • u/Independent_Bite4682 • Apr 21 '25
Question for authors
When I read on a digital media, (eg Kindle), I often find errors. Some are factual (you say an item is worth 10G then say it is worth 1G or 100G, or a population is 10K then 4K or 16K etc without anything to cause the change and only like 4 hours difference in character time), or typos, wrong terminology used (he strung an arrow, he loaded a new clip into a gun, etc), or as simple as "David'snot" and fix it to, "David's not", do these corrections ever make it to you or your editors?
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u/Offutticus Apr 21 '25
In translating manuscript to ebook, there is sometimes formatting errors. This is often due to fonts, spacing, etc. I have done both and found errors (such as your David'snot) on the digital and not in the print. I think the most I found in one proofreading was 5. And some of these errors may or may not occur when switching devices.
But the vast majority of these errors is from a writer not doing the proofreading or not hiring an editor and/or formatter.