Do errors bother you?
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Do errors bother you?
"...and he understand why the 16 year old..."
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But, more important to me are factual errors. Even fiction needs to stick to reality. They can't create a beach with great surfing in Omaha and keep me reading. I don't require that authors know anything about guns for example but if they have a character who supposedly knows guns and he makes basic error I lose interest.
I belonged to a reading group years ago and a number of the members were veterans of WWII. We read a book in which the author had characters who were in the military in WWII talking about an army DC-3. The guys were outraged. In their opinion, no soldier would have called a C-47, the military designation for a DC-3, a DC-3.
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I pretty much agree with them, I still remember the cadences that include the c-47 in them!
On another note, do you think it may be the proof reader is just spell checking and not reading? It may not be the author's fault entirely, but I understand what you mean.
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Well said, lisateb! We all truly do make mistakes, but it seems as though the frustration of finding a mistake or typo is inevitable! Understanding that print is a different animal, I wish there were a way for readers to help or submit notes to the author when reading published ebooks.lisateb wrote:I wish that they didn't because we all make mistakes, but they do bother me. I know that things can happen and things get overlooked. Normally, a few aren't that big of a deal, but I have seen books that are filled with them and I wonder how in the world they got published in the first place.
All of that being said, ryanj1 makes a great point regarding copyrights, as well as faulty bolts/faulty grammar. The whole ordeal is unfortunate.
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Unfortunately, authors who've got major support from their editors get the chance to correct the mistakes, new authors (or authors who don't earn as much) get left out to dry.
So at least in part I believe this is the publishers fault.
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You're right about that, my friend!Graverobber wrote:I think for best selling authors it's almost uncalled for...however for new authors I expect it.
Unfortunately, authors who've got major support from their editors get the chance to correct the mistakes, new authors (or authors who don't earn as much) get left out to dry.
So at least in part I believe this is the publishers fault.
I have a close friend who got a publishing deal a few years ago for a book she had written. I had the read the book and edited it to the bets of my abilities. She had read the book who-knows-how-many-times before submitting it to the publisher for review. When it was accepted for publication, she didn't get an editor at all! I guess because it was her first book and she had no prior writing experience? For whatever reason, she was completely on her own. Needless to say, I got a copy of the book, and I found maybe 2 or 3 errors in it. Just small typos. Like, "and" instead of "an" or something like that. It looks so unprofessional to someone who reads the book, but it actually wasn't because the book wasn't edited. It just wasn't professionally edited. Hahaha...
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I mainly get bothered because, like others have stated, when there are errors on almost every page it seems a bit lazy especially when it's common grammatical errors.
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