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Originally Posted by GraceKrispy
When I comment on a book review that there are many grammatical errors in a book, I feel a bit like a Scrooge. Yes, it's an indie book, but why shouldn't it be held to the same standard? How else will indie books get the credit they deserve? I can't, in good conscience, not mention it when there are excessive errors. From the other reviews I see, I wonder if I'm truly the only one seeing these mistakes and being bothered by them, or if the others were all written by "do-good" spammers, uh, I mean reviewers.
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I've personally come to associate something billing itself as "indie" with a "I'm just SO cool and hip and special that I shouldn't have to bother with bourgeois corporate notions like quality. Just having the cachet of that 'indie' label should be enough" mindset that puts me right off. I don't enjoy snobbishness of any variety (while admitting I tend to be a bit of a grammar snob myself when it comes to "professional" writing
), and I really don't enjoy the attitude that someone is just SO special that they're above such mundane things as competence.