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Originally Posted by HarryT
Definitely not my experience. The mindset of many self-published authors is still, alas, "I don't need the services of a professional editor". Big, BIG mistake. Authors who don't need editors are as rare as hens' teeth. I'm not saying that traditionally-published books don't contain errors - of course they do - but far, far fewer (in my experience) than many self-published books.
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It's proof readers the tradpubs have killed off, they still use copy-editors. There's a bit of a skills overlap, but a copy-editor will never catch things a decent proof reader would.
Not sure what sort of books you're reading, but I followed a couple of writers from selfpub to tradpub (and back to selfpub again in one case) and there were a lot more mistakes in the tradpubs.