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Originally Posted by Cinisajoy
It is not publishers that are putting out error laden books. It is people that don't read, or don't care about errors in the books they read, that are publishing no one but me will see this book until it is published. They do no proofreading. No other eyes but their own. And they refuse to spend anything to make their "book" better.
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I wish that was true, because I hardly read any self-published books. But unfortunately the big publishers, who publish the vast majority of the books I want to read, are often not much better.
I just finished reading
The Faded Sun Trilogy by C. J. Cherryh, published as an ebook in 2015 by Penguin US. Big publisher; well-known author; fantastic story; but well over 200 separate errors including misspelt words, missing words and punctuation, extra words and punctuation, and missing scene breaks.
Sadly it is far from the worst example that I have come across this year. I would gladly pay a few extra dollars if they would proofread the books before they publish them.