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• Charlie Stross commented on Obsolete before it ships
  Charlie writes blog entries here several times a month, and the entries are readable, engaging, and generally free of egregious grammatical, spelling, and formatting errors. Is there a paid editor responsible for that outcome? Or to put the point even more sharply, I have seen published SF novels with a higher defect rate than Charlie's blog entries. That's an observational bias. Firstly, my blog entries do include errors -- but if someone prods me about it I edit them. So if you come to them more than 3 hours after they're posted they're usually clean. Secondly, a novel is 2-3...
• errolwi commented on Obsolete before it ships
  From memory, when I came across one in TFM (while reading on my iPhone), I pasted it into an email, and noted down chapter and unique text string (using Calibre's reader) when next at my laptop....
• https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=AItOawk1hZOjYirE56CWIPKfy3XpkOLmZGaHtuk commented on Obsolete before it ships
  I agree that publishers are historically and currently important to the financial well-being of authors. I was prompted to respond by this: "My grandfather wrote a collection of stories from his life as a doctor in the rural Midwestern US, around the middle of the 20th century. The stories were well-written and filled with many amusing bits of history (i.e. catfish noodling and sterilizing a self-assembled OB kit in his oven) but the editing was totally horrific. There were multiple occurrences of the number one replacing the letter "L", plainly misspelled words, and seemingly obvious formatting errors. The book came...
• errolwi commented on Obsolete before it ships
  Sure, just pointing out that ebooks make noting it (assuming 'it' is something not pbook specific) as you go somewhat easier. And authors that have 'typo hunt' posts on their blogs means that you have an easy way to pass them on....
• Charlie Stross commented on Obsolete before it ships
  Anthony: Any reader should realize with a wee bit of reflection Well, there's your problem in a nutshell!...