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Grammor, and spealling, & puntation, and other ... errors destract! from the reeding IHMO;
If I see to many of the above, I abandon the book. If the book reads like it was written by someone who has never written before, I abandon the book. I can certainly suspend my disbelief when reading, but if things get too preposterous, I abandon the book. If the author starts spewing out details about something they are obviously ignorant about - "I shot him in the chest and watched him fly back 20 feet" - I abandon the book. If the author gets preachy, even about some cause I might agree with, I abandon the book.
There are way too many good books out there to waste your time on something amateurish. This should make my answer to the initial question fairly obvious, "Don't publish poorly edited books".
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