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Mortis · 02-18-2011, 02:55 AM

What Maggie Leung said.

A proof reader in a commercial printing plant earns about (CDN) 50K/year base, and they would be expected to proof at most 50-70 tabloid size pages/day. Plus maybe 30 more pages would be undertaken as the presses were doing make readies, so on the fly, these would only be content proofing, not spelling, punctuation or grammar.

I doubt a good copy editor would do more than 20 pages a day. I could be wrong, but I am sure there are a few people on this forum much more qualified than I when it comes to copy editing/proofing of novels.

02-18-2011, 02:55 AM	#107
Mortis Canucklehead in Malaysia Posts: 1,633 Karma: 3127774 Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Device: iPhone, Kindle	What Maggie Leung said. A proof reader in a commercial printing plant earns about (CDN) 50K/year base, and they would be expected to proof at most 50-70 tabloid size pages/day. Plus maybe 30 more pages would be undertaken as the presses were doing make readies, so on the fly, these would only be content proofing, not spelling, punctuation or grammar. I doubt a good copy editor would do more than 20 pages a day. I could be wrong, but I am sure there are a few people on this forum much more qualified than I when it comes to copy editing/proofing of novels.