Quote:
Originally Posted by CliffB
To st_albert & Hitch:
Yes, we are a very different type of user, but there are a many of us out here. We are small independent publishers and authors. Personally I work in the Seattle and Portland areas but sometimes work with OpenStax CNX in Houston. We are quite tech savvy, most of us can hack HTML, CSS, JavaScript. However, we do not like to hack code while we are writing because it is a huge distraction and reduces productivity (hence the value of Book View).
I have 4 books out now for which I used Sigil as the final editor. Each one was written in LibreOffice or PanDocs Markdown and I used Google Docs for research and collaboration with other authors. My intention was to import them into Sigil as the last stage of the tool chain and then do the final edit. Of course they dragged on for another 6 months to a year and were substantially rewritten AFTER being imported to Sigil. I would say that 1/4 to 1/2 of the total writing was done in Sigil when all was finally said and done.
In your usage case, you are the final editor?? In this case the author has finished and passes the work to you for final editing. In our case we are the author AND the final editor.
|
Assuming that you were asking me (and Albert):
We're not a publisher, nor do we (generally) provide editing services in which we are making the changes, rather than implementing the changes requested by the authors. We are, for all intents and purposes, the modern-day equivalent of the printer--totally GIGO. (Although I admit, there are certain things that get, ahem...tweaked...if I see them. e.g., "Forward" is a pet peeve of mine. As that can often appear opposite our credit line on a copyright page, we change it if we see it.)
In other words: an author, an imprint, or (for white-label) a layout house sends us a file. This file will be Word/Pages/OO/LO, for the first two, or an INDD file, for the latter. We create a review set of eBooks (ePUB/MOBI). Those go out to the client. When the client finds the ubiquitous edits, changes, typos, etc., we receive a Proof Form (usu. in Word), and we implement the changes. The revised files are sent to the client. Lather, rinse, repeat until the book is "approved." With the clients and the small imprints, it's a somewhat "retail" experience; lots of hand-holding and such. With the White label clients, it's in, out, done. (My dream in life is to have all white label and imprint clients.)
Does that clarify?
Hitch