have some publishers just done away with proofreading editors entirely?

[ratcreature]

I'm reading the fifth volume of Kate Elliott's Crown of Stars series, and just on the first couple of pages I've noticed several typos, missing letters and such. I get that one or two per book may slip through, but several in the first ten pages? I also noticed some in the previous volumes, but the frequency in this seems particularly high and even shoddier. I like the series well enough, but this is really annoying.

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[sholio]

Oh man, I see SO many typos in books these days. It's really annoying. Actually, the first Dresden Files book I ever read, I almost put down because there were so many typos in the first couple of chapters (but then it hooked me, damn it *g*). I assume the problem is mostly that they rush to production and don't give each book enough individual attention at the proofreading stage, but also, I've worked in the layout departments of various newspapers for most of the last 15 years, and there are a whole lot of typesetters, layout artists, and even copy editors who wouldn't recognize a typo if it jumped into their coffee cup.

[ratcreature]

Yeah, I noticed that with Dresden Files too. It's shoddy work, and I'm just thrown out of the story flow if it's this bad.