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Also whether a typo is a problem or not can be considered cultural I think. I mean for example the Chinese always leave a little area of things like their sculptures unfinished because they have a philosophy that says nothing of the world can be perfect. I can imagine the literary equivalent is the odd typo. Not to say a book should be published with the MS being filled with such, just that one or two little errors shouldn't be that big a deal in the mind of the author. If you think about it a minute the grammer, etc. that is used for writing a book and the English that we study in school aren't quite the same either. Writers break the rules all the time. So the odd typo is a small thing I think.
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