Kindle Users: Anyone notice a drop in quality lately?

zrockstar

Has anyone else noticed a change in quality control with Kindle books lately? I have noticed formatting errors in 2 books I have purchased over the last month. I don't know if it is just a bad luck of the draw or if Amazon is just hitting a convert button and whatever it spits out they put up for sale. I have been using kindle for my books for a good part of a year now and haven't had any issues. These last two books though the formatting is clearly noticeable in the first few pages so it is obvious that nobody took a look at the Kindle book before putting it up.

RobertKaucher

I sometimes think that the case is that they use a converter and just publish what ever the output is. I have also had some issues with a number of books. The Design of Everyday Things, which every person in IT - especially developers - should read, is an example. The kindle version was missing several images.

zrockstar

Robert, thanks for the heads up. Have you had any luck contacting Amazon about these problems?

demonfurbie

my wife hasnt had any issue (i rarely use amazon for books) with major publishers, she has ran across some issues with self/small publishers with spelling or formatting

RobertKaucher

I have never bothered to complain about it. Generally I was using text to speech to listen to the book on the way to work so the lack of the photos was not a huge deal.

tpatt100

I ran into this problem with less popular books in the IT area. They looked like some poorly formatted PDF conversions. I had one which I can't remember but it looked like a photocopy imported into Kindle, smudges and all lol.