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Originally Posted by Blossom
Because as a professional publisher they should've never Let it go to press. It's the editors' job to make sure this doesn't happen. This isn't some self published book. It's a book I paid $7 for and I expected it to be at least readable.
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It is
not the editor's job to make sure crap doesn't happen. The only power copyeditors have is to suggest and recommend. Dozens of times I have suggested to publishers that a book desperately needs a developmental editor and/or shouldn't be published in the present form, only to be told that it was going to be published for reason
xyz, usually because the publisher didn't expect sales to be sufficient to justify the expense of a developmental editor or publication delay.
And I know personally of hundreds of instances in which authors have rejected necessary editorial changes because their "writing is perfect" and the publisher just wants the book published. Editors do not deserve the blame in this game!