I took my horse for a ride and soaked up some trees and solitude before heading into the city to spend the day with Mom, sister, BIL and nephew
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I hate to disappoint you...kbpenguinDecember 26 2008, 02:27:03 UTC
It must be really disappointing for an author to have their publisher make such a hash of their story, particularly when there's no doubt they could do a better job themselves if they posted it online. Having worked with many authors and a number of publishers, I'm afraid that my guess is that most of the typos originated with the author, who quite possibly couldn't have done a better job herself. It's possible that with the book you're talking about, the publisher retyped the text from the author's paper copy and therefore may have introduced the typos, but more and more often, the publisher starts with the author's file
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Re: I hate to disappoint you...zebra363December 26 2008, 12:16:27 UTC
This particular author publishes a lot online and I've never seen a mistake of any kind in hundreds of thousands of words.
Surely even if the author's copy is full of errors, part of the publisher's job is to get it into shape to be read? I know nothing about the industry, but I'd've assumed that was what they do!
Re: I hate to disappoint you...kbpenguinDecember 26 2008, 22:16:46 UTC
Ah, well, in this case it does sound like the author could have done it better herself.
It definitely is the publisher's job to get the copy in shape (hence publishers hire people like me to edit and proofread). It's just been my experience that many authors wouldn't do better themselves and would not be better off self-publishing.
That said, I've known of books that had errors introduced by the proofreader/formatter, but thankfully it's been a very rare occcurence.
No need to kill! I'll put the steps up tomorrow. There's no real recipe, though - you just make a biscuit crumb crust, put the ice cream on top and then put something on top of that if you so desire!
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Surely even if the author's copy is full of errors, part of the publisher's job is to get it into shape to be read? I know nothing about the industry, but I'd've assumed that was what they do!
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It definitely is the publisher's job to get the copy in shape (hence publishers hire people like me to edit and proofread). It's just been my experience that many authors wouldn't do better themselves and would not be better off self-publishing.
That said, I've known of books that had errors introduced by the proofreader/formatter, but thankfully it's been a very rare occcurence.
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I hope your holiday break is looking up!
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