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Originally Posted by starrigger
Understand: copy editing and proofreading are not done on computer files. They are done on paper--yes, with red pencil, or sometimes blue pencil, or even black pencil. And those corrections go back to be entered by the typesetter.
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Perhaps this is true with some publishers, but all of the publishers with whom I work -- and these are mainly major publishers, for example, Elsevier, McGraw-Hill, Eye On Education, and Oxford -- copyediting is done electronically, not on paper. The last time I copyedtied a manuscript on paper was 20 years ago.
Proofreading is a mixed bag. Electronic proofreading has increased but a good portion of that is still done on paper.
One caveat: my experience is with nonfiction; it may be different with fiction.