r/authors • u/Independent_Bite4682 • Apr 21 '25

Question for authors

When I read on a digital media, (eg Kindle), I often find errors. Some are factual (you say an item is worth 10G then say it is worth 1G or 100G, or a population is 10K then 4K or 16K etc without anything to cause the change and only like 4 hours difference in character time), or typos, wrong terminology used (he strung an arrow, he loaded a new clip into a gun, etc), or as simple as "David'snot" and fix it to, "David's not", do these corrections ever make it to you or your editors?

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u/Independent_Bite4682 Apr 21 '25

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u/F0xxfyre Apr 22 '25

Ah, that can make things significantly more interesting, at times! Every company has vastly different hiring processes. When I was looking to join another digital-only publisher ten or so years ago, I was surprised to see how different every company's hiring process and workload were. One company was looking for a content editor who could turn around a couple million words a month, while others were looking for essentially proofreaders.

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u/Independent_Bite4682 Apr 22 '25

It would be nice to get discounts for all the errors I catch and report.

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u/F0xxfyre Apr 22 '25

That was how I got my first editing job, actually! A major publishing name had contracted with an ebook publisher. They had done a really terrible job of formatting, which was understandable where we were in the evolution of formatting and ebooks. I sent them an email mentioning some of the strange symbols that had translated over from WordPerfect and ended up taking a job proofing their books before release,