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Originally Posted by Hitch
Indeed, which is why Amazon has specifically stated that they will only occur for VALIDATED errors.
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So Amazon is going to be the grammar police? Don't get me wrong, I'm all for grammar police, but only if the people who are wielding the billy clubs know what they're doing. Will the Amazon functionaries really know what they're doing? Or will they just assume that if they get 20 complaints about the same thing, it must be an error--even if it really isn't.
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All in, I expect that this won't be abused BY AMAZON. I seriously doubt that they'll Scarlet Letter a book for 3 typos, or even 5. I would tend to think that they are targeting the worst offenders; illiterate grammar and egregious amounts of typos, and horrible formatting. That's my take, FWIW.
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Then why doesn't Amazon do some basic checking of formatting before offering the book for sale, or require the author to verify that the book was proofread, or something along these lines up front, not after the book has been inflicted on an unsuspecting public? The goal of this new policy may be worthwhile, but it seems like a backwards way to go about it.