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Originally Posted by leebase
I can’t tell you WHY there is a quality difference.....but there certainly is. And I’m not talking about grammar. And this from the POV that I actually enjoyed the Amazon author's book. It’s like how I can enjoy a McDonald's hamburger and yet understand it’s no steak dinner
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It's like any other business. Some companies are so focused on cost, they cut quality to save money. You see it in the software industry. Everyone has a "QA" department, but for quite a few companies trying to get software out the door on a specific schedule, QA is more of a rubber stamp that catches gross errors.
Imprints tend to go through cycles based on whomever is in charge of the imprint. Some imprints have fairly strong editing (i.e. the publisher backs the editor when the author pushes back), while others have a fairly minimalist editing standard.
You also see it with indies. Some are "self edited", most seem to have been edited at a proof read level, a few seem to been polished a bit by either an editor or a reading circle.