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					Originally Posted by  mr ploppy
					 
				 
				The same is true of corporation-published books. Proof-readers were the first to go when they needed to make efficiency savings. All books have been riddled with errors for the last 5 years or so. 
			
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 So perhaps they need to compete with the lower-priced garbage--perhaps this is one of the consequences of the flood of self-published books; they tend to lower the standards for all books.