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Originally Posted by gmw
Yes, we should try to make our books as good as the big publishers. On the other hand, most of us aren't trying to sell our books for $10+ each, and we'd be foolish to try. Most consumers, whatever the product, make an automatic allowance with regard to cost. Yes, there are some that think a 0.99c ebook should be every bit as good as a $10 ebook in terms of production quality, but this isn't the rule.
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What I cannot accept, though, are books that are full of spelling and grammatical errors, such as using "it's" where it should be "its", or "your" instead of "you're". That's just plain and simple ignorance and, for me, makes any book an automatic "fail".
Can I ask you a question, please? This isn't a criticism - just curiosity. In the text I've quoted above, you refer to a "0.99c ebook". I've seen many people say that their book costs "0.99c", when it turns out that they really mean that it costs 99c. Why do people write "0.99c" when they mean 99c? This seems to be a uniquely American phenomenon: I've never seen a British author say that their book costs 0.99p when they mean 99p.