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Originally Posted by marytg
... It is absolutely astounding to me to see the tremendous number of the typographical, spelling and grammar errors in e-books, even from big publishing houses.
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You know, this makes me think of reading Karin Lowachee's books,
Warchild and its two sequels, all of which are trade published. It's almost as though the publisher just OCR scanned a print copy and sent it immediately off for ebook conversion. I don't know if anyone else here has read these - they're really, really excellent books and I HIGHLY recommend them - but the sheer number of typos in them (and it gets worse with each progressive book) made the "professional" publisher look really quite "un".
Proofing is really, really important, and it's about three times more important for an independent/self-publishing author. Those typos stand out, and every single one of them brings the reader out of the story, if only for a moment.