>"hard cover version included a shocking number of typos and other mistakes which decent copy editing should have picked up, and which are a disgrace for an academic publisher such as Bloomsbury (especially as the book was very expensive)."

It's somewhat understandable with self-published books (but can't you get two or three friends to read the draft?), but one would expect more from reputable publishers. They do seem, however, to often give up on copyediting, making it the author's responsibility.