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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward
Question. When you take a hardback and reprint it to a MMPB, exactly what copyediting (and separately copyproofing are done)? This is not a trivial question. The plates are not the same, different font sizes, sometimes different fonts, and diferent pages lengths.
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Good question. Sometimes they just reduce the plates and that's all there is to it. But more often they do what you say, and in that case, new proofs may go out to the author for scrutiny, and are presumably also proofread by a second party. This also an opportunity to correct errors that crept into the hardcover, and sometimes make final revisions (usually minor).
It's also a big PITA. (By this point, the last thing you want to do is read that @$#@# book again.) But you want the book to go out in the best shape possible, so you do it.