[SteveEisenberg]

Originally Posted by fjtorres

Plenty of anecdotal reports to be found.
Like this one:

http://www.thepassivevoice.com/11/20...comment-269132

Problem is, none of the incidents involve Amazon at all because they are just a retailer.

Your link amounts to a negative book review that never gets around to naming the book! Or the publisher.

For all we know, the book in question was released by Amazon Publishing (the Amazon publishing arm which pays advances).

There's always a danger that heavy editing will make a book worse. But the idea that this commonly happens is an extraordinary claim for which there needs to be evidence. The most convincing form of evidence might be actual examples of authors whose books became better when they stopped being structurally edited.