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Originally Posted by rhadin
My point is that yes, you can do things very cheaply. Heck, I know editors who will edit a book for less than 50 cents a page. But it's the difference between a Yugo and a Toyota. It's the difference between an editor who knows that shear and sheer are not the same thing, that affect and effect, their and there, and roll and role give different meaning to a sentence. Highly skilled editors cost more but bring more to the table than just running spellcheck.
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It seems that commercial books by widely known authors, published by known and respectable publishers, have no toyota editors then - not for their ebooks anyway. You cannot imagine how many roles instead of rolls, and how many sheers instead of shears I found in ebooks I've purchased, and I'm no editor myself, good or mediocre. I'm just a reader, but I know a wrong word when I see one. Maybe this is all a bit off topic, but I had to say it. Someone who loves his job may be better at it than someone that is well paid. If a writer gives his manuscript to five friends who are not bored while they read it, they will do a very adequate editing job I'm sure. I know that since I got my prs-600 I use the note-taking extensively to correct mistakes on books that should have come to me word-perfect.