Editing costs very significant time and money, especially for good editing. At one time, this was the value add of traditional publishing houses, and, honestly still is in many cases.
That's a bit sad to hear, though.
I am partway through Fiat Food. I recommend it for the connection of money printing to subsidized illness, especially in the US.
But holy cow - it needs editing! Missing verbs, misspelled homonyms, dangling participles, incorrect prepositions. No shade to the author (I can’t even imagine how many mistakes I would make in a multi-chapter book) but isn’t editing a crucial part of the publishing process? nostr:nprofile1qyt8wumn8ghj7ct5d3shxtnwdaehgu3wd3skueqpz4mhxue69uhk2er9dchxummnw3ezumrpdejqqgzr08nkh7nk4q9cmw02wkfprkgtk0n8kgszlzyqe384ll3qv5rp453f6g5h
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I have plenty of reservations about AI, but I would think that this would be a great use of it.
Eeeh. I've seen AI make too many mistakes. Also, when I write, AI doesn't like my sentences even if they are very grammatically correct.
hmm - ok. It just seems like at least some of these mistake could have been flagged with a pretty simple protocol (every sentence must have a verb, for instance).
But I can imagine that a good (human) editor would probably help improve the syntax as well as catch the glaring mistakes.