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Message: <blockquote data-quote="wayne62682" data-source="post: 3449004" data-attributes="member: 40455">The problem though is such shoddy quality is largely INEXCUSABLE for any sort of publisher.  I worked for a very small publishing company, maybe 20 employees if they were lucky (the production department was myself and one other person, and this person left my first week on the job so it was only me).  We had a full-time person with a Master's degree in English who would proofread each and every thing we did before we sent it the the printers for publishing.  If anything, and I mean anything was wrong (grammar, misspellings, the wrong word used in a particular context) it was sent right back to us and we had to fix it and submit it again.  Sometimes it got sent back four or five times because one word was misspelled.  And these were 500+ page books (they were alumni directories, so imagine what amounts to a phonebook) too, not 180.Again, no excuse at all.  A professional company should provide professional work, not half-assed hackjobs and expect their customers to not complain and be grateful for anything at all and *gasp* how dare they expect quality work.</blockquote>