I recently bought a few textbooks from Springer Nature, but I noticed that especially the newer books (one from 2023 and one from 2025) lacked proper editing.
And I'm not talking about just a few typos, but rather thoroughly bad English, repeating sentences, unreadable text in figures, undefined or confusing symbols (the quantor ∀ for a volume was a particularly odd choice to me) and pictures/photographs without sources.
In one case, a figure even just had a copy-pasted caption from a previous figure. Things like that should immediately be spotted by an editor, so I'm getting the feeling that there was no actual editing, which is quite... aggravating considering the hefty price tag on those books.
The content itself is fine, but issues like that really make it hard to read the book properly. And I don't blame the authors here.
Both books were from Springer Nature Singapore specifically, so maybe it's a systematic issue. So far I only read about bad printing quality, but didn't find something about bad editing yet. And I definitely had no issues with older Springer books.
Has anybody else noticed this pattern, too?