Originally Posted by
Jim Becker
Self-editing has unfortunately become a lot more common in fiction because self-publishing is about the only way for many authors to actually get published these days. And the issue with self-editing is that one is so familiar with the material that even simple grammatical (and sometimes spelling) issues pass right by the author's eyes because they are just so familiar with the writing. Almost everything I read these days is from authors who are faced with that. They are great writers and have wonderful stories and series, but the economics of it all have sometimes hurt in the details.
There's another phenomenon I've seen with older authors (i.e. those whose books were originally published as, well, books) where the ebook edition is just plain horrible. My suspicion is that whoever currently owns the publishing rights just does an OCR scan of the hardcopy and stuffs it through a format converter to get a quick-and-dirty Kindle version...emphasis on "dirty". There are some where the author (or direct heirs) is still alive and everything is being handled by his/her "real" publisher, and those seem to be more or less ok. The real problem is dead authors whose book rights have changed hands multiple times and are no longer controlled by anyone who cares about the source material.
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