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Originally Posted by Blossom
Because as a professional publisher they should've never Let it go to press. It's the editors' job to make sure this doesn't happen. This isn't some self published book. It's a book I paid $7 for and I expected it to be at least readable.
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Originally Posted by crich70
Ah, but isn't it the job of the editor to catch such errors and then have the writer fix them? And what if the writer and editor are one and the same person?
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Yes, it's the editor's job, but the author still has the primary responsibility. You don't know how many problems the editor found and resolved; you only see the ones that were overlooked.