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Originally Posted by rhadin
A computer program cannot copyedit a book. How would it know whether a comma should be inserted or removed, for example? A computer program can help with copyediting, especially find and replace for consistency and spell checking, but as Bill noted, too many publishers do seem to end the copyediting with the computer program and the poor results are obvious.
A skilled, competent copyeditor (live person) is not inexpensive. Sadly, publishers often hire poorly skilled people who charge very little for their service to copyedit books in an effort to save money. And many people believe that because they read books and can spot an error or two that they are great editors.
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Question. When you take a hardback and reprint it to a MMPB, exactly what copyediting (and separately copyproofing are done)? This is not a trivial question. The plates are
not the same, different font sizes, sometimes different fonts, and diferent pages lengths.