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jefrye t1_iu3kjwl wrote

They're unrelated.

There are a lot of terrible (but publishable) books because writing well is a very very difficult skill that most authors haven't mastered, and a large portion of readers just don't care about whether a book is well-written as long as it "does what it says on the tin," so to speak, so those books still have an audience and still get published.

There are a lot of beautiful book covers because it is probably the single most important element when it comes to marketing (read: selling) books, so publishers invest in high-quality cover art that communicates to readers what the book is and grabs their attention.

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PizzamanCJ t1_iu4n7mm wrote

^ can confirm the first paragraph. I'm appalled every time I find errors in my books and then I comb them expecting to find one or two, and find DOZENS. But all the readers give me mostly positive feedback and never even mention that a word was misspelled or missing. Readers enjoy the ride it seems, or maybe thier brains just repair the grammatical errors if theyre simple and not excessive.

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SeeingclearlyOrg t1_iu6g6fs wrote

Wait! Do you mean traditionally published books? Only if yes, can you give an example?

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PizzamanCJ t1_iu6jrlz wrote

Sadly I wasn't, but any book can have typos and any book can fix them so future copies don't. Editors are human and publishing houses have deadlines.

But the reason I backed the other comment is because it wasn't just friends and relatives I was talking about (as they don't read anything I write) but when I convince someone I barely know to read my work and am able to ask them about it they "don't recall seeing that many errors" for me to go back and try to locate them and find an amount I personally consider appalling

So people get lost in a book and either don't notice or don't care, but since someone WILL care.. gotta get those typos

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