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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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Ralph, if you are asking the question of me, I cannot answer it. The books I work on are not trade books and thus do not have more than one print form (i.e., they are not printed as both hardcover and softcover editions; it is one or the other).
However, I will say this: When it comes time to reprint some of these books, we have to recreate pages to correct errors that were missed in the first printing. These errors are found by the author and often are author errors (i.e., errors that a copyeditor or proofreader would not be expected to find because they are errors of fact in specialized knowledge areas).
The one thing that is certain in publishing is that copyediting and proofreading reduce -- not eliminate --errors, and repeated copyediting and proofeading by different sets of eyes continues the reduction cycle. I have yet to read a book in which an error cannot be found.