What Ever Happened To Editors?
587489
The title is misleading; this attempts to be a military history, but the author is clearly ignorant of most things military.  He writes a good social history and his personal interview material is good.  But when he tries to incorporate that into a larger presentation of military issues, he is clearly out of his league.  Corps and divisions are frequently reversed.  "7.62 mm" weapons become "76.2 mm" (there IS a difference!).  He looses track of units he was just describing!  It is almost all stuff that any decent editor would have caught and fixed and this easily would have gotten one more star, but it sadly appears that editors today are flunkies and morons.  And they can't compensate for an ignorant author anymore.  In the absence of good editors, this author desperately needed a co-writer.
1413018
I appreciate the variety of articles that each issue offers. I also appreciate the ease with which you may make comments. But the writing sometimes has been poorly edited, and words are missing so that you may have to re-read sentences or fill in the missing words. It's frustrating to see the decline of good editing online.
1664095
I always wonder how difficult would be for an editor to work a little bit for the sake of a book, making a bunch of articles something more connected to each other. I guess the publishers of this book didn't care.
2135761
I really enjoyed this book but the publisher or editor didn't do their job! Some paragraphs should have been new chapters. I don't know if this was result of a lousy job of conversation to "e" media or if these were in the original.....

I plan to order some more of this series!
3051548
This book is obviously the product of the "spell checker" editing mode. The content is wonderful; but this book apparently never passed under the eyes of a human proofreader. I have seen 4 typos in one paragraph! I think the publisher should be embarrassed to have charged for this "draft". I have learned many tips from this book, but I question the recipes after noting the plethora of typos. I hope this book will be reissued in a properly edited form - it is a wonderful resource, but horribly jarring to read in it's current form.
214540
This author has a promising future.  Invitation to Love was a pretty good book but what happened to editing? And what's with all the v's between the chapters? The erors were so annoying it was distracting. I hope the author looks at the reviews because she/he has a good handle on how to pull the reader in. I hate to be negative, but the whole way through, pass was used when it should have been past and letters sometimes missing.  I thought feelings and descriptions were very well expressed. Proofreading imperative!
1122220
What happened to HP Kindle edition??!!  I have been a subscriber for about 5 years and within the last few months it has become a mere slice of itself.  There are only about 5 to 8 news articles a day and that's about it.  What happened to all the other articles from various genre?  HP should be embarrassed to even publish this Kindle edition.  Please upgrade your Kindle edition.  Fire the Kindle Editor or hire a few more people to work on this blog.
73154
This is still the only game in town.  It's better than the last edition, but remains poorly edited.  There are too many errors and omissions for it to be considered more than a general reference.
2158121
I have been a subscriber to PC world for almost 25 years and was forced to go digital.
My problem is Dec 2014 edition has a full 32 pages and most of its featured sections are now gone.
The magazine has gone into skid row and is already dead and just trying 2 suck up some extra cash.
3269403
Don't publishers employ editors these days? While I may admire Eade's effort to bring focus to genuine issues through fiction---GMO foods, fraudulent banking practices---I was shocked at the inept writing. "Pouring" over documents (not once but several times), awkward sentence structures, and cliche after predictable cliche. Someone should give Eade a plaque reading, "I once used cliches like they were going out of style, but now I wouldn't touch one with a ten-foot pole."
2867145
Vince Flynn is one of my all time favorite authors.  Normally his books grab me and I just can't put it down. This one started in the middle of the action, but didn't make me want to stay there, I'm not sure why? Reminiscent of a Tom Clancy novel - too many foreign names and unexplained subplots to track all jammed into the first pages perhaps? I actually put the book down for a few days before I started it again. Normally unheard of with a Vince Flynn novel. I'm hoping it improves. My biggest disappointment however is the editing. I HATE getting into the storyline of a book and being stopped cold by spelling or grammar errors. I don't remember this being an issue in past Flynn novels. Mr Flynn, I would ask for part of the publisher's commission back as they aren't doing their job! With this book it started right off the bat with the use of to in place of too. Then another similar error. Errors that aren't caught by spell check. Can the publisher no longer afford an editor and proofreaders? These are usually the errors I see in self published novels. Next there are two instances where a word or words are just missing and I couldn't even figure out what the missing word(s) were supposed to be by context. Now realize, I'm less than 1/2 way through the book and felt compelled to stop reading and write this review! Editor, please tell me what this sentence at location 2528 on my Kindle means? "He'd learned from the past that transported to the base hospital." How am I supposed to get deeply entrenched in this novel when, BAM, I'm brought out of that world by bad editing? Very disappointing and sad. Do right by your readers Mr Flynn and don't allow another of your wonderful novels to be presented in so poor a package!
4443889
I've been a subscriber to the Kindle edition of the Inquirer for over a year, and the quality is steadily deteriorating. Duplicate articles per edition, spelling mistakes (even in headlines), badly compressed thumbnail images blown up into a pixellated mess, and less and less stories. It's sad to watch it decay as the year goes on.

My Sunday edition I just received had only a handful of articles. One "news" article, the rest sports and magazine. It's a pity.
2622714
This book need to be removed from availability and fixed before release to the public. There are many red line edits that still appear in the released edition.  A lot!

jklobucher@frontier.com
3365467
I understand this to be a work finished some years ago but un-edited and un-published  until recently. It is sad that the editing that was eventually done was done so poorly. Misused words and typos abound as well as improper punctuation. In all, no better than one would expect from a self editing self publisher. If you enjoy the John Carter stories you will enjoy this creative and well written twist in the Carter story. However, it remains a shame that such precise and personable prose suffers from such indifferent editing.
Rob Dorseyyy
Editor in Chief
Copper Creek Press, LLC
Author- " Sword Masters of Mars"
789928
Ok.  So I have been waiting a LONG time for this installment of Darien & Victoria's story!  Several questions are answered and loose ends tied up in the first part of the book but then the story takes a different bent and more questions concerning Darien's true nature are brought to light.  I'm intrigued and ANXIOUS for the next book!!  The author is a good writer, the story flows well and is an easy read.  However - the editing left a lot to be desired.  It was worse than her previous books.  Not sure if she was in a rush to get it published because of a deadline or just changed methods of editing.  I believe in one instance "here" was used instead of "hear" but mostly missing connecting words or too many connecting words.  Nothing beats an actual human proof reader!  The poor editing was a distraction for me but I still enjoyed the story and am looking forward to the next one.
276692
Could not finish this one. Why oh why oh WHY don't self published authors get editors? If you can't afford a professional editor, find a friend who knows how to properly construct a sentence or at the very least, not mix three different tenses in a single sentence. Too many stories with potential are ruined by horrible writing. UGH.
3166027
A true "barn find" of a book. It could have been on a par with Dana's classic "Two Years...". Unfortunately, a great first person account of a lifestyle that was so common at one point in history, was let down by woeful editing. I had great hopes for e-readers in this digital age, but am now convinced that this format allows authors and editors to become lazy. It has certainly killed the art of wordsmithing. Use a spell-checker at least. At times, the meaning of the text was lost among the numerous misspellings. Not worth the price that was charged. Get a classic instead - at least it will have been proof-read at some point.