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Originally Posted by Keryl Raist
You know, for popular authors this would be insanely easy to do. Video games have lists of people in line to be beta players. How hard would it be to get people to do that for books? Sure you'd have some spoilers creeping out, but you'd also get cleaner books for minimal costs.
Movie studios do this. They don't pay test markets to go see movies and let them know what needed work. Why not have test readers?
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That's basically what they do, they're called advance reader copies, and they replaced professional proof readers years ago. Two problems with that, proof reading is a rare talent, and any changes only get made to the book version.