Where have all the proofreaders gone?

There is no more proofreaders since everything is done with computers. I have not seen some in a publisher house since the 1980's. I think the state is the last one employing proofreaders for the paper where are printed our laws. Today the text is checked by a spell checker and the finalized copy is sent to the author to correct it if needed, printed or only in a PDF. I always ask to somebody else to re-read. When the corrections are done, it is sent to the publisher/editor, who sends back a new corrected copy where the author has to write "Good to print" ("Bon pour tirage" in French) and sign. So, if this book is by a living author, if it is full of typos, the responsible is the author. And I was forgetting : since the early 2000's all publishers ask for a digital copy. On a novel, all their job is formatting the book and preparing the cover. But they do not offer a cent more to the author.

When I find this book on Amazon I see there is no publisher listed. Weird. Did this person self-publish? Not to say that self-published books are necessarily full of mistakes...

It really gets my head aches so much for proof reading

I hate having to figure out what people are trying to say because of the mistakes made. Especially in paperbacks. So much for computers and their corrections.

I blame the computers for this specific problem. It will get worse in the future. Look at the texts written using the smartphones on this site. People trust the "suggest" option and one every 3 or 5 words are wrong.

That would get distracting

Wow I have never seen that many errors in one book. Ocassionaly I do find one and I get excited that I spotted it since my grammer is poor.

I think the word "the" needs to go from English. It serves little purpose..

It can be tolerated here but not in a book. I wonder if the publishers have the right to edit!!