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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[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.