David Brush asked Neil Clarke:

When you see a typo in a book, does that ruin the entire experience for you? At what amount of typos in a novel would you consider sending a book back for a revision?

Neil Clarke If I'm reading for pleasure I find it very distracting. Becoming an editor just made that worse.

If I'm considering a story for publication, it will vary. I find I'm more forgiving of foreign authors, largely because this might not be their first language. After that, it's more a matter of the kind of mistakes. (Not everything can be caught by a spellchecker.) As for revision, that has more to do with the story than the spelling.

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