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Originally Posted by Lemurion
One important factor you're leaving out is the author's own development. Good editors help authors develop by showing them what to look for. It's common for authors to receive less and less editing as their career progresses (whether it's always for the best is up for debate but that's another issue).
The author won't get better if they can't see their mistakes - it's like learning anything - you can't get better until you learn how to recognize mistakes, and at least at first someone's going to have to point them out to you.
There are reasons why many writers have credited editors as being invaluable in their professional development.
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I'm not leaving it out, since my initial comment was on BearMountainBooks saying that another author only got editing on the first book of the series. And in the same way that training wheels need to come off eventually, also the authors need to stop relying on editors eventually.
And my point is that while they are learning, they shouldn't expect to get that much money out of it.