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I'd settle for spelling and malapropism checks.

Yeah, I'm not sure if this is true, but I have the impression the error rates have increased in the last decades, despite spell-check becoming more effective at finding them at low cost.

Most publishers seam too have decided its knot worth employing copy-editors any moor.

There are some publishers I won't even buy books from anymore, because I've paid too much money for books that are so rife with typos and nonsense that it was clear that it never even touched the inbox of an editor or a proofreader.

I recently read all of Philip K Dick's novels. Spotted typos in every book. I log typos in my goodreads reviews

In the past it wasn't even the author's fault necessarily. The worst case of this was an anthology of Ursula Leguin, "Five Complete Novels" where I quit recording the typos as there would be multiple per page

If the typos are in a legitimate eBook copy, it's because sometimes the people who make the eBook don't have the source file(s), and instead have to OCR a printed book.

If the typos are in the printed book, that's bad.

Well in their defense, we don't want to pay for newspapers and so you can argue that this is the result of a lack of resources.

If you can't provide a quality service cause nobody is willing to pay for it, end your service. Rip the bandage off.

At the very least, end it on a high note that you can be proud of -- don't let it degrade slowly until people are openly mocking it.

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