I learned the difference between commissioning editors and copy editors. I learned to consider the business and financial side of books and thinking in terms of the viability of a title. Once you’ve published a title you still have to make decisions about keeping it in print, reprinting it or putting it out of print. It’s important to set…
Month: December 2015
Copyediting
Lianne Slavin, Managing Production Editor at Manchester University Press, came to teach us all about copyediting. we practiced a lot on unedited versions of documents and comparing our choices with the edited document. The two main things I’ve learnt: Judith Butcher’s Copy-Editing is one of the copyediting bibles. In short, copyediting is about looking out for stuff…