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Originally Posted by Lemurion
As for the argument that most commercially published books have as many errors as self-published books, I'd argue that indicates either extreme selectivity in reading or large numbers of false positives.
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I have favourite writers I follow, same as (I'd guess) everyone else. I don't just choose books at random, and anyone I'm not familiar with I'll read the first few pages before I decide.
I've yet to read any book published this century that doesn't have mistakes, and I keep a list of all of the ones I find. The closest so far has been a self published one with only 4 mistakes per 100 pages. The worst, by far, was a corporation-published book called The Girl Next Door and that wasn't even a first printing, it was its 5th or 6th outing to tie in with a film version.
I've also followed a couple of writers from self pub to corporation pub and there has been no reduction in the number of mistakes in their books after the transition. This idea that corporation published books aren't just as riddled with mistakes as self published books is a myth.