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Originally Posted by starrigger
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Writers want to be writers, not publishers. If they start spending all this time doing the production for the publishers (for editions that for most writers won't earn more than beer money), they stop being writers. Trust me, I know firsthand.
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This attitude bothers me. If you view your writing as a hobby and an art, fine. But then, don't expect to earn a living at it. If you expect to earn a living at it because it's a business, then just like any other job, there will be vital things you must do which you may not like. I am a teacher, I am good at it and that is my job. I dislike playground duty, am not good at it, and resent spending time on it when I could be doing teaching stuff, but it's part of the job so I do it. Every job has things like this.
To reiterate one more time, everyone seems to think I am expecting authors to proof-read for formatting mistakes in multiple e-versions. I am not not. I am expecting authors to proofread for CONTENT mistakes in the actual story, like Jimmy being called Jimmie and things like this. That is a very different thing, and imho that IS the author's 'job' certainly if he is charging people money for the book.