> -----Original Message----- > From: erik at debill.org [mailto:erik at debill.org] > > 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. > I actually look at it a different way (whoa. big surprise there). I rather enjoy finding the occasional typo/misedit as I can say, "HA! I caught something that the author AND the publishing company missed. I rock!" os something to that effect. W The proof is in the pudding. ("so THAT'S why they missed the typos")