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Originally Posted by Angst
nice article on the problem here.
"Editors I spoke to confirmed my guesses. Before digital technology unsettled both the economics and the routines of book publishing, they explained, most publishers employed battalions of full-time copy editors and proofreaders to filter out an author’s mistakes. Now, they are gone."
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Just when were these "battalions" employed? Publishers have made liberal use of freelance copy editors and proofreaders for a very long time, well before digitization.