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Originally Posted by rhadin
Having a "real editor" doesn't change one's status from indie to non-indie. The indie author is responsible for the editing, which means responsible for hiring and paying the professional editor, not that they should do the editing themselves.
It is the taking on of the responsibility, not the method of fulfilling it, that separates the indie from the non-indie author.
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I would say, though, that it's
taking that responsibility and hiring a professional editor that separates the "serious" author from the amateur. There are very, very few authors who are capable of editing their own work; it's a different skill-set to writing, and almost nobody can "distance" themselves from their own work sufficiently to be able to dispassionately edit it.