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I'm new here but I think the OP's intentions are in the right place. He (or she) said he was being facetious. Besides, you don't need to read an entire book to realize it's full of typos.
But I also see major downside for this, specially with technical books. Let's face it, some engineers write horribly and some do write in their second or third language. It doesn't matter how good they are in their field. It's the publisher's job to correct the typos after all. But some of the papers and works are published by independent publishers or even the scientists themselves, and they make the works available at a nominal price so they can't spend too much money correcting the grammar. So if a publisher gets too many returns for the wrong reasons, Amazon, BN, etc. could stop them from publishing which would be terrible.
I emphasize the word grammar because if the "math" is incorrect or the name of a molecule is grossly misspelled, then it's a completely different story and the mistakes should be reported but preferably to the publisher not Amazon.
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