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Re: List of Typos - Would it KILL TOR to... DomA Send a noteboard - 23/03/2011 12:39:21 AM
it just seems hard to imagine that they didnt catch this when reading it through. of course, i am clueless with respect to the editing process, but just leisurely reading through i caught a ton of typos. sometimes one every few pages, which is really 8bad for a #1 new york times bestseller.


I'd say go see th list on TL mentionned above. You'll probably see you've missed more than you caught (in part it's because we rarely read words in full as we read)

It's a bit the same while editing. They must have caught many casually during the creative editing, but the focus is on the scenes/dialogue/characters, not on spelling. They rather obviously botched/rushed the later (painstaking) more technical/quality control part of the process, where they'd eliminate remaining typos, spelling mistakes and so on. There are tons of dubious language remaining in there, like characters smelling flavours and what not. That's normally taken care of in edting, when the process isn't botched...

That's largely Tor's responsability as publisher - their QC standards have tended to be a bit low in the last few years, especially for a major publisher that has the means to do much better.
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As you say, the problem is in the publishing - 24/03/2011 12:31:31 AM 721 Views
The Way of Kings is riddled with typos. Way more than ToM *NM* - 22/03/2011 08:33:06 PM 523 Views
But it's still such a good book, I didn't even mind. *NM* - 23/03/2011 01:34:14 PM 363 Views
One benefit of my dyslexia is that I don't even notice them *NM* - 23/03/2011 01:42:17 PM 316 Views
+1 *NM* - 24/03/2011 06:51:51 PM 311 Views

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