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Originally Posted by moonshot
At least who ever hired the singer has a responsibility in this. So unless the self published 'author' is giving their book away for free, who is vetting these books to make sure that they reach a minimum standard.
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I have purchased ebooks from big publishing houses that had an inexcusable number of errors, including bad global replaces, words missing accent marks, hyphens not cleaned up, missing table of contents, lots of scan errors that should have been caught with basic spell checking, and other errors not found in a print edition. In other words, the BPHs have minimal standards themselves. I will grant you that buying a self-published book is more likely to have errors that would make a middle school English teacher cringe than you would see from a BPH release, but from what I see, a lot of reviewers will call that out and downrate the book accordingly.