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Originally Posted by James_Wilde
Yes and no, Harry. I think the reading public is a good deal more tolerant than we perhaps have a tendency to think. If you're paying $25 for the latest Dan Brown or John Whatsisname, the lawyer chappy, you expect a well-produced and well-edited hardback.
But if you're paying $2.99 for something to kill an empty evening, you're prepared to put up with a lot less. Admittedly you often get it, but it's like the difference between tv and radio - a badly edited book, as long as it's not so bad that it's unreadable, can feed your imagination, even if it's only to think of ten different plot variations and four different endings!
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Got to disagree with you there. I recently read a badly edited and badly formatted independent book. If I hadn't promised someone I'd read it I would have ditched it after the first 2 chapters for one of the innumerable excellent books I have on my reader. It's a shame. it was an interesting plot with interesting characters, it just needed someone to go through it with a red pen and someone else to see how the formatting actually looked on an ereader.