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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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Now that is pretty cool.
As shocking as it might seem to us, there are still some authors who write out books long hand (he hires someone to type it up for him), and some publishers who want manuscripts printed out on paper in a specific format. One would think that everything was done electronically these days, but that doesn't seem to be the case.