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Originally Posted by HarryT
It certainly used to be the case that the author gets back what's called a "galley proof", which is the "final edit" prior to publication, but this is normally on paper, not electronic. I have the galley proof, with hand-written corrections made on it, of a Michael Moorcock novel called "The Dragon in the Sword", which I bought at a charity auction at a British "Eastercon" SF convention about 20 years ago. Whether these days authors get electronic galley proofs, I don't know.
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I get the authors get a galley proof and very good idea. Pwalker was saying that publishers don't keep a copy. I am assuming that the author got a copy and the publisher kept a copy in case they needed to run a reprint.
We never argued the author shouldn't get a copy, just that the publisher should keep a copy since they have the publishing rights.