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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jmucchiello" data-source="post: 1834309" data-attributes="member: 813">Will doing so positively affect their bottom line in a significant fashion? Unfortunately, no, it won't. So why bother? Just because you are hyper-aware of language and grammar doesn't mean everyone else is or even should be. People don't READ role-playing supplements: not like someone would read a book. They flip through them, flip around in them, look over what catches their eye, etc. And even those who do read the books, they aren't reading them for the same reason one reads a novel. They are looking for ideas, concepts, bits and pieces that they can use in their games.Reading a novel, one might be put off by running into a typo or grammar error. But when the goal is not to read a story but to mentally index for future ideas, a typo here, use of effect instead of affect, a few stat block errors, none of these things detract from the value of the information.Buyers are tolerant of the mistakes because the books are used for reference, not for reading.</blockquote>