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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Merkuri" data-source="post: 3882530" data-attributes="member: 41321">I wonder...I believe the big problem here is money.  The publishers don't want to pay more money for people to sit and proofread.I wonder how many people would be willing to get to read books for free (and be one of the first people to read them to boot) if they agreed to look for spelling errors and typos?  Give a pre-published copy to a few fans (who sign a NDA) and get free proofreading!Edit: Here's a story I just thought up and wanted to add without posting twice in a row...When I was in high school I was reading a book, and I came up on a passage that seemed very familiar.  I realized I had read it before.  The continuity was wrong, too.  The characters were wondering about something they had figured out a while ago.I looked at the page numbers and realized that it actually WAS a page from a while ago.  It went from something like page 200 to page 150.  And the next pages were 151, 152, etc.  At first I was amused.  They double-printed some pages.  So I flipped through to the next instance of page 200, read half the page to remind myself where I was, and when I got to page 201 it didn't make sense again.  It wasn't page 201, it was page 251!  They double-printed fifty pages, replacing fifty other pages.The publisher actually sent me a new copy after I sent in a letter, which was good, but another book in the series had a similar problem, except only with 5-10 pages instead of 50.  They never returned my letter about that one.</blockquote>

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