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Old 10-29-2012, 05:34 PM   #27
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Originally Posted by Angst View Post
nice article on the problem here.

"Editors I spoke to confirmed my guesses. Before digital technology unsettled both the economics and the routines of book publishing, they explained, most publishers employed battalions of full-time copy editors and proofreaders to filter out an author’s mistakes. Now, they are gone."
Just when were these "battalions" employed? Publishers have made liberal use of freelance copy editors and proofreaders for a very long time, well before digitization.
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