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Originally Posted by fjtorres
And in the end it is the author who is accountable for the final product.
It is their name and their brand at stake, not the (usually) nameless editor, proofreader, etc.
*They* get to make their own choices and their own decisions and live with the outcome; even if they choose to go traditional and trust the universe to take care of them.
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And in traditional publishing, when an author adamantly refuses to fix a grammatical error or to accept a revision of a particularly clunky sentence, who gets blamed by the reader? The copyeditor and proofreader, of course.