Um, no, and God no. Most mms, no matter how clean, need some editing if the publisher has any self-respect.
I just found this not very happy recitation about Double Dragon. It seems though, that he was expecting things they don't offer.
http://www.authorsden.com/visit/viewarticle.asp?AuthorID=169697
Well, it seems every 10 years or so that a rumor spreads on the "Grapevine" that DDP will be closing. The short answer is no. I have no plans or intentions of closing the doors on DDP at this time. And although these rumors had encouraged many offers to purchase DDP, one of them being pretty lucrative from a major player, I've decided to continue.
So while the market is currently in a downturn and sales are suffering, I see no reason to abandon ship at this time. After all, I have thousands, if not millions of man hours in the conversion and creation of art for DDP titles.
Cheers,
Deron
I have four books with DDP. I can echo some of the above reservations.
Here is the message he just sent us to reassure us as to DDP's stability.
We expect authors to take pride in their work and to take time to proof read and correct what they write. We will format books to our in-house style and use proofing tools to remove some grammatical and spelling errors. We do not charge a fee for this service, but if a book is not adequately presented, we will hand it back to the author and suggest they either fix it themselves, or pay an independent editor to sort it out. We have ones we can recommend, but who the author uses is entirely their choice....
We prefer you, the author, to market your book along with our own efforts, if you can, and the most successful authors are those who do market their works.