<story><title>I don’t know if whoever flagged the typos in my eBook thought they were helping</title><url>https://twitter.com/ursulav/status/1209518819397505024</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>MBCook</author><text>So what am I supposed to do when I buy an ebook and it’s full of typos or OCR errors? Just suck it up? “Oh well, next time I just shouldn’t buy from MAJOR PUBLISHER?”&lt;p&gt;It’s sad it can be used to grief, but as a user it’s the only method I have of pointing out the issues and asking for them to be addressed.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Baeocystin</author><text>If someone genuinely spent the time to help catch errors in my manuscripts, I&amp;#x27;d be thrilled. Editors are expensive!&lt;p&gt;That the automated system as described can be abused is a real problem, and that needs to be addressed. But that is a separate issue from the generally bad state of what passes for final edits in many books nowadays.  That the author in question can&amp;#x27;t be bothered to keep a current copy of their manuscript leaves me lukewarm on the issue.</text></comment>
<story><title>I don’t know if whoever flagged the typos in my eBook thought they were helping</title><url>https://twitter.com/ursulav/status/1209518819397505024</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>MBCook</author><text>So what am I supposed to do when I buy an ebook and it’s full of typos or OCR errors? Just suck it up? “Oh well, next time I just shouldn’t buy from MAJOR PUBLISHER?”&lt;p&gt;It’s sad it can be used to grief, but as a user it’s the only method I have of pointing out the issues and asking for them to be addressed.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>simion314</author><text>I think Amazon should add a threshold and always have a human check the reported issues before setting up this flags that can do damage to the author. But if you look at youtube example the big companies don&amp;#x27;t care about the little guys.</text></comment>