Dear Geist,
Is it my imagination, or has the proofreading of books gone downhill in the last ten years?
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Dear Greg,
Probably. We don’t have any proof, but we do know that book and periodical publishers have an increasingly tougher time making ends meet, and more resources have therefore shifted from editorial to marketing. Publishers and writers tend to be OK with this trade-off. An example: for the first couple of years of
would ever be published, so . . .
—The Editors