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Originally Posted by carbonize
Nope I agree it doesn't have to be a publisher just someone who's prepared to tell you the truth even if it's bad news. Even the proofreading is not that important as I read Death Ray Butterfly by Tom Lichtenberg from Feedbooks and it had typos and formatting errors but was still a good read.
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I rather think the other way.
Proofreading and fixing typos solve concrete issues with a text. Deciding it's a "good read" is another matter entirely... after all, your "good read" may be another person's "trash." It's a matter of opinion, and no book should be kept from others because one person didn't get into it.
I think it's better to have the book out there, as well-constructed as it can be with proofing and error-fixing, and let the overall market evaluate the book... the more people see it, especially the more of its target market, the more reliable the opinion of how "readable" it is.