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Old 05-27-2010, 11:14 AM   #120
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Originally Posted by pdurrant View Post
eARCs are not for people to proofread and report typos. They're to get extra money out of people addicted to particular authors or series. You're not expect to provide feedback. Baen has professional editors who do that. The point of eARCs is that there hasn't been time yet between the author handing in the manuscript and the eARC appearing for the final copy editing to have been done.
Exactly. In fact their info page on eARCs states:
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Please do not send in typos and errors, we know the eARC is unproofed and the author doesn't need to be inundated with "corrections".
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