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Originally Posted by AnemicOak
I just spent 2 hours correcting and proofing a book produced by St. Martin's for a friend of mine. It had spaces in the middle of words, paragraphs run together and other errors a simple spell check would have caught.
I haven't run across it a lot, and I'm probably a bit more picky than average, but it does happen.
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Is St. Martin's a small/independent/recent publisher? Or, alternatively, is your friend exceedingly small-fry in the literary world? I'd be surprised to see the sort of errors you are talking about, if the answer to at least one of those questions wasn't yes.
Traditional publishers of paper books aren't perfect, and they can produce shoddy work too... but books from established publishers by authors that are likely to have a 2nd book down the road are, as a general rule, prepared with notably more care than eBooks of any sort by anyone.
- Ahi