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Originally Posted by karunaji
Certainly the author's first draft should be very well written otherwise even the best editor won't be able to do anything to improve it. However, typos and submitted format are easy to fix and are irrelevant. Editing is delving into most minute details, it is like final polishing, very subjective and yet it is worth it every penny. If the story has even one rugged edge or word, it throws off reader's imagination. It costs $1 to fix this word and $10,000 to know which word to fix  |
What I see in Europe for paperbacks in English, is that the prices depend more on the store than on the publisher. So all the variation in the value of a book and the work that was put in it is lost by the time it reaches the buyer. I read fiction and there isn't a difference in price between a book that is placed in a universe where the language is modern English, and a book where the language is a little different from modern English. I would assume that the latter would require more work.