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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
Writing 80,000 words of nonfiction, or even half that, especially in a technical field, can take a lot longer. And someone needs to check more than the grammar and overview of facts. The editor needs to know not only if anything's wrong, but if anything was missed--did the author leave out any essential topics? Were the topics that were covered, all covered to roughly the same depth?
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Along these lines, the preface in my Riverside Shakespeare indicates that it was over ten years in the making. So while it sucks that they cost so much, I can definitely see why they cost
more.