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Originally Posted by Ninjalawyer
Interestingly, I've heard similar things about Frank Herbert's scifi classic Dune. I doubt many publishers these days would be willing to take on a book that needs that kind of work.
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They will take it on if the author can tell a story. Technicalities like spelling and grammar can always be fixed by the editor. What is rare is to find the people that really can tell a story.
Also it is not uncommon that writers under contract have to re-write big parts of a book (the last exemple I heard about was throwing away 85%) due to the input of the editors.