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Yup. Once a copy editor, always a copy editor (even though, in my case, I ignored a journalism professor's suggestion that I become one).
Book editing really has gone downhill in recent years. While it is no surprise that obscure publishers appear to do no more that trust whatever spellcheck software they have, I find that some of the old-line publishers are getting sloppy, too.
(But I'm the sort who is annoyed with the decrease in the use of ligatures, doubtless a consequence of the fact that nearly all typesetting is done by the author.)
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