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Originally Posted by rhadin
One former client of mine, a major publisher, told me that they are being pressured to stop paying for editorial services altogether because the savings would increase shareholder value. The bean counter rationale is that people don't see editorial problems until after they have already bought the book and actually started reading it, which usually occurs long after the return period. Consequently, editing is unnecessary.
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... yeah, it's not like that might cost profits in the long run because people might go, "the books from that publisher are so shoddily edited, I'll avoid them" (or even, "...I might as well go with self-published ebooks for a quarter of the price").
Sometimes I get the feeling a complete lack of common sense is required to rise high in corporate.