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Originally Posted by Catlady
It seems silly to me. Other than the most egregious formatting screw-ups, how is Amazon going to objectively verify actual errors?
An author might choose to have characters speak in dialect, for example, or to have an unconventional first-person narration. Even regarding formatting, an author might decide to be nonstandard. These may be stupid and annoying editorial choices, but they may be choices, not mistakes.
If, say, a dozen people incorrectly report something as an error, is Amazon going to decide it's an error?
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I wonder: will Amazon post some sort of "exception" message for works by writers such as
e.e. cummings,
George Eliot,
Zora Neale Hurston,
Harper Lee,
Cormac McCarthy, and
Mark Twain, who either use grammar/mechanics/spelling idiosyncratically or frequently write in dialects?