Comments on: No More Advance Reader Copies http://www.girldetective.net/?p=1045 Reading, Writing, Movies and Mothering in Minneapolis, Mostly Tue, 12 May 2026 01:18:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: girldetective http://www.girldetective.net/?p=1045&cpage=1#comment-8963 girldetective Mon, 20 Aug 2007 18:43:21 +0000 http://www.girldetective.net/?p=1045#comment-8963 Scanning your own copy is probably the second step I'd advocate for a book. First, spellcheck and go word by word for the weird ones. Second scan own copy. Third, pay a professional to go through. And probably fourth, do three again with a different person. Scanning your own copy is probably the second step I’d advocate for a book. First, spellcheck and go word by word for the weird ones. Second scan own copy. Third, pay a professional to go through. And probably fourth, do three again with a different person.

]]> By: vtuss http://www.girldetective.net/?p=1045&cpage=1#comment-8959 vtuss Fri, 17 Aug 2007 21:07:41 +0000 http://www.girldetective.net/?p=1045#comment-8959 Ugh. I knew it. "Scans his own copy FOR typos." Ugh. I knew it. “Scans his own copy FOR typos.”

]]> By: vtuss http://www.girldetective.net/?p=1045&cpage=1#comment-8958 vtuss Fri, 17 Aug 2007 21:07:01 +0000 http://www.girldetective.net/?p=1045#comment-8958 A copy-editing colleague of mine was angered by a book he was reading earlier in the week for its all typos -- and this was no ARC. Perhaps this is something on the rise. The New York Times review of Newt Gingrich's Pearl Harbor book just tore into the bad editing more than anything else. Here is the review, not behind the pay-per-view wall yet, but it might be at some later date: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/24/books/24masl.html?ex=1187496000&en=353d37d56fb30a07&ei=5070 (And now he scans his own copy of typos...) A copy-editing colleague of mine was angered by a book he was reading earlier in the week for its all typos — and this was no ARC. Perhaps this is something on the rise. The New York Times review of Newt Gingrich’s Pearl Harbor book just tore into the bad editing more than anything else.

Here is the review, not behind the pay-per-view wall yet, but it might be at some later date: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/24/books/24masl.html?ex=1187496000&en=353d37d56fb30a07&ei=5070

(And now he scans his own copy of typos…)

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