On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 05:22:06PM -0500, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: > > They'd rather give it to the author? Actually, a few hundred dollars > is significant compared to the size of a lot of book publishing > projects even from mainstream publishers. > > What bugs me is that even the top-line authors don't get the extra > attention. I'm pretty happy with "good enough". An occasional typo doesn't impair my enjoyment much (though every once in a while you get a "not" instead of a "now" that really messes things up), and those last few typos must be damn expensive to remove. Probably about like the last bugs in a major piece of computer software. Erik -- Humor soothes the savage cubicle monkey. -- J Jacques