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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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I'm afraid that, personally speaking, I'm NOT willing to do that. That's why I spend months proof-reading the classics, and posting them here, because minor details like typos and bad punctuation REALLY annoy me.