By Peter Ginna
ISBN-10: 022629983X
ISBN-13: 9780226299839
ISBN-10: 022629997X
ISBN-13: 9780226299976
In What Editors Do, Peter Ginna gathers essays from twenty-seven prime figures in e-book publishing approximately their paintings. Representing either huge homes and small, and encompassing alternate, textbook, educational, and children’s publishing, the individuals make the case for why modifying continues to be a necessary functionality to writers—and readers—everywhere.
Ironically for an equipped on phrases, there was an absence of written advice on the right way to really procedure the paintings of enhancing. This e-book will function a compendium recommendation and should be a source either for these getting into the occupation (or already in it) and for these open air publishing who search an figuring out of it. It sheds gentle on how editors gather books, what constitutes a robust author-editor dating, and the editor’s very important position at every one degree of the publishing process—a function that extends a ways past marking up the author’s text.
This assortment treats enhancing as either artwork and craft, and likewise as a occupation. It explores how editors stability ardour opposed to the industrial realities of publishing. What Editors Do exhibits why, within the face of a speedily altering publishing panorama, editors are extra vital than ever.
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