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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
Regular publishers are increasingly skimping on editing (with proofreading the first to go), because they are trying to keep costs down. A lot of ebook readers who ought to know better just want their ebooks cheap and suggest line edits not be done to save the costs.
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I've heard somewhere that publishers are now only getting the first 100 pages or so done in an edit, I suppose it's enough to draw the person into buying and "who cares after that, job done, sale made".
The financial pain of getting an edit is quite a lot - that said we pushed ours through, cost quite a bit (over $1000) and subsequently followed up with a proof from another person. It costs but it does also give one a bit more of a sense of security when putting the book out.
Paul.