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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
I'm not an "immersive" reader at all, and I tend to blow off the occasional typo** rather easily.
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I'll blow off the occasional; but if a book is rife with them, yes, I report them. Why should I not? I better than most here know exactly what happens with Amazon and KQNs (Kindle Quality Notices) and all that, but whose fault is that? It's not Amazon's and it's not mine. I've
paid for that book. It's being sold to me as
a professional, commercial product. It's not being posted on a writing group's site, or on Scribd or Wattpad for free. It's a product--period.
If I'm getting yanked out of the story consistently with homophones and typos and broken paragraphs, you can betcha that I'll use the button to report it and YES, I will
also mention it in the review. Again--the author should have made more of an effort. Swapped proofing with another writer. Used a critique group or service. All those things can be done
for free or with the investment of a bit of time.
If it's not done, again--not my problem.
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** And no, my use of "the occasional typo" does not equate to the error-laden work of untalented, uneducated, and unprofessional "hacks" (like some in this thread seem to want to make this issue all about for some reason). I use it to refer to the "normal" amount of typos (including by the most professional of authors/editors/ publishers) that has always been a part of preparing novel-length works for distribution, in any format, since the beginning of books.
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Agreed. I'm not going to turn Berserker over a handful of typos. But if I'm skimming Amazon and in the LITB, I run across the "Forward," that's an
immediate fail for me, because that's an immediate Early Warning System that tells you that the author didn't use a proofreader or an editor, or have ANYONE ELSE even look at the accursed thing.
I've recently run across a surprising number of typos, etc., in a series in which I
know that the author is doing quite nicely. (Sales rank). This latest book was well along in the series, like Book 9-10. He's making money and he has Beta readers that he thanks. Unless they were
unconscious, he must not have used them for this last one and obviously did
not use a proofreader. WHILE making pretty damn good money. That feels very disrespectful toward his fans and readers, to me.
Hitch