While reading a very thoughtful article on the economics of education in the Kindle edition of The Atlantic, I ran across the following mangled phrase:
The conventional wisdom is that you get what you pay for.that the larger the price tag, the better the product. But that.s not true in higher education.
The electronic version of the magazine isn’t being copy edited for errors after conversion from the files used to create the paper publication.
Poor quality copy is not going to help publishers solve the problems presented by the transformation of media. Treating the digital text as a quick, cheap copy only denigrates the reader, who is paying for quality writing, the writers who contribute the work, and the staff’s efforts to make a good product. All these are obvious reasons to make the same effort to proofread published material for errors before sending it to Kindle (or any e-reader) owners. The economics of poor quality lead only one way: downward.