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Originally Posted by Kindleing
I've been thinking the same thing - my wife reads a lot of paper books from major publishers and frequently complains about poor editing. She sees everything from misspelled words to wrong words to mixing up the names of characters. In one book two brothers were traveling in a car; in one paragraph one brother was driving and in the next paragraph the other was behind the wheel . . .
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There are different types of editing, and different editorial skill levels. I think Amazon has tried some to hire away arguably super-star editors and not done well there.
Aggressive insistence on eliminating whole chapters, or having new ones written, might be essential for some books and acts of desecration for others. So. I don't mean to imply there are perfect super-star editors who only work for the big five.
Fortunately for me, I'm OK with typos and don't notice plot errors as your wife does. But I do find many books to be boring, never finishing them. They seem to be disproportionately from university presses.