Just curious but how did you know it was missing 14 pages? Fourteen pages sounds to me more like a printing error than an editing error and I would definitely be demanding my money back.janebeth92 wrote:I've never experienced this issue before, but I have come across awful editing (grammar mistakes, spelling errors etc.) and it makes me want to become an editor so I can fix these problems. One book was so bad that it actually was missing 14 pages. They weren't ripped out or anything, they were just completely non-existent. It was hard to finish the book, as those 14 pages held some vital plot information. The thing is, no genre or style or publishing house can escape from this amateur editing. Small publishing books have it, big publishing books have it, you can find it anywhere! So frustrating.
I remember once reading a book that had a page in the centre inserted upsidedown - can't remember what the book was but I remember being a bit bemused by it.