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Really? I mean, really?
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According to people who make their living at it, yes.
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Having written and tried to
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But not succeeded?
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sell a book, considering the 7 drafts I wrote (of which 3 were complete typing of each and every word), the reading and editing of those drafts, and whatnot, I put in somewhere in the order of 1000 hours of work. You're telling me the publisher of today puts that much time into each and every book they print?
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When subsequent drafts are done at the request of an editor/publishers, do you really think they aren't spending significant time one it, too?
1000 hours is 25 weeks, or about half a year. For a relatively new writer, that seems, if anything, lower than usual.
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Now, if you're Amanda Hocking and chug a few energy drinks and crank out a book in 12 hours, sure, I can see what you're saying being true. But I think the vast majority of authors put in far, far more time than a publisher ever will.
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Those who have succeeded in selling manuscripts, multiple times, do not agree. For some reason, I'm inclined to take their word for it over yours.
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And given the abundance of typos and misspellings I see in the average NYT bestseller, I doubt many are given much time in the editing process.
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Publishers do a lot more than editing, and most of what they do is
not proofreading. (And that was the case when they still
did proofreading, as well.) Go read Charlie Stross' blog posts on the subject. He
does know what he's talking about, and if he has any bias, it's in the other direction.