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I'd prefer to see the books adequately proofed before being offered for sale; actually, I've often seen authors touting a "new and improved" revision, which most of the time tells me that they shouldn't have been charging for a product and then expecting those who paid them to provide constructive feedback. This seems to me that some authors are expecting paying readers to act as de facto editors of their work, and I'm not inclined to want to pay for the privilege of editing someone else's work.
Then again, a lot of what I see aren't simply "typos", but rather errors in syntax, spelling, grammar, etc. - things that should not be present in a book for which an author expects to be paid. In other words - fix it and then sell it, rather than expecting me to pay for it and then help you to fix it.
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