Also traditional publishing includes things like editors, proofreaders, etc. Unless you happen to have friends who will do that for free these things cost, and the lack of them shows. Sorry, but it does show even in your self-published works, odd typos, incorrect/missing/extra words, strange formatting (line breaks for instance), etc. The author is usually not a good person to do that job, because they know what they meant to write and tend to 'see' that (and I know I'm the same). With traditional publishing that gets added into the general costs, with self-publishing the author has to bear that cost (or bear the cost of not doing it).
With things like chapbooks and on a web page most readers will put up with a few mistakes because they know they are getting something which they probably wouldn't get through a traditional publisher (or not for a long time), but in hardcopy print not as much.
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Date: 2011-09-14 04:18 pm (UTC)With things like chapbooks and on a web page most readers will put up with a few mistakes because they know they are getting something which they probably wouldn't get through a traditional publisher (or not for a long time), but in hardcopy print not as much.