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Proofreading

Proofreading at B&N

Because Almost Perfect Isn't Perfect

By the time you finish a book, you’ve read it so many times your brain starts filling in what should be there instead of what actually is. That’s not a flaw in you — it’s just how every writer’s mind works. It’s also exactly why professional proofreading services exist. Our proofreaders arrive with fresh eyes and a trained instinct for the errors hiding in plain sight. The missing word. The doubled ‘the.’ The quotation mark that never closed. The character whose name mysteriously changes spelling in chapter nine.

  • Human Proofreaders Only – Real professionals reading every line. Not software scanning for patterns
  • Track Changes Included – See every correction, accept or reject each one yourself
  • Any Stage, Any Format – Manuscripts, e-books, print proofs, final PDFs before press
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What Our Proofreaders Look For

Proofreading is your book’s final quality check, and our checklist runs deeper than most.

Spelling and Typos

Every misspelling, missing word, doubled word, and autocorrect casualty  including the ones spellcheck confidently waves through.

Grammar and Punctuation

Commas, apostrophes, quotation marks, sentence structure. Fixed without flattening your style.

Consistency

Character names, place names, hyphenation, capitalization, numbers. Identical from first page to last.

Formatting Slips

Stray fonts, wrong indents, uneven spacing, paragraph breaks that shifted somewhere during editing.

Dialogue Mechanics

Quotation marks, dialogue tags, punctuation inside speech the single most common trouble spot in fiction.

Final Pre-Print Check

For books headed to press, one last review of the formatted proof. Errors love sneaking in during layout.

Why Authors Trust Us

Proofreading That Respects Your Voice

  • Book Specialists: Our book proofreading services are handled by people who work on manuscripts every single day — and who know that fiction, memoirs, and non-fiction each play by different rules.
  • Your Style Stays Intact: We fix errors, not personality. Intentional fragments, regional voice, stylistic quirks — those get a polite flag, never a bulldozer.
  • Honest Pricing: Clear per-word rates that stay affordable, minus the quality shortcuts that come bundled with the cheap proofreading services floating around online.
  • Combined Option Available: Need more than a final polish? Our proofreading and editing services can be bundled, so the deeper problems get fixed before the final check.
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Publish with Confidence, Not Crossed Fingers

Your book is one careful read away from ready. Send the manuscript today, get a free sample edit back and see the difference before spending anything at all.

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FAQs

Proofreading, Explained Simply

Editing improves how the book reads: structure, flow, clarity, word choice. Proofreading is the final sweep after editing — typos, punctuation, formatting. Not sure which yours needs? Send it over. We'll tell you honestly, even if the answer costs us the bigger sale.

Priced by word count, so you know the exact cost upfront. A standard 60,000–80,000 word novel falls in a clearly quoted range, and the free sample lets you judge the value before paying a cent.
Most full manuscripts wrap in one to two weeks. Shorter documents, days. And when a deadline is breathing down your neck, rush delivery exists.
Yes any stage, including final formatted PDFs right before printing. Which, by the way, is exactly when layout errors most love to appear.
No. Our job is removing errors, not rewriting you. Anything that looks intentional-but-unusual gets a polite comment instead of a silent change, and every correction sits in tracked changes under your control.
Yes, and lots of authors do editing first, proofreading last. Bundling costs less than ordering separately, and nothing falls through the gap between the two.