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Originally Posted by frostschutz
Reviews are kind of a bad place to report errors and such; if there are lots of typos in a book I sure mention that in the review but I don't actually report the specific errors to the author, so it's unlikely that the issue will actually be fixed.
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Actually a lot of authors I know do fix errors that they get from reviewers and then rewrite if they think the reports had merit. I can't think of a single author that wouldn't appreciate having typos pointed out - especially if in digital formats or files (POD) that can be fixed relatively easily.
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Originally Posted by frostschutz
Currently there is almost no good way to give authors feedbacks on their books. I don't want to list errors in detail in a review because it could put other people off (even though it's a good story despite the issues); same goes for the self promotion threads here in this forum. I'm extremely reluctant to give feedback here.
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Send them a PM with a list if you don't want to publicly upset them. Writer's have egos for sure, but most have thick skins and all (all I know anyway) prefer to have detailed reports of factual errors