This fall, I'm using a first draft of my book manuscript in my Economic Analysis of Social Issues course. I have asked my students to carefully proofread it for errors in spelling, grammar, and punctuation, and am rewarding them for finding mistakes.
The response has been overwhelming. They've found dozens of errors that I and several others have repeatedly overlooked. It's impressive, and humbling, and a bit embarrassing, and totally worth doing.
I will never again send anything out for publication without having a second set of eyes look over what I've written.
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You're in good company.
Donald Knuth, a very famous computer scientist, has been doing this for decades with his books, even after publication.
People submit errors more for the notoriety than for the cash (he only pays $2.56 per error) but apparently the system works quite well...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knuth_reward_check
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