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Originally Posted by Cinisajoy
Why are you having to do the edits? They have the files. Wait did you say 117? Not sure I would even want to look at that one.
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Because in the case of the one, they're in PDF, ePUB and MOBI, and the client doesn't have the knowledge or the software to edit any of those; and in the case of the latter, ditto, but it's ePUB/MOBI. That's why.
This sort of thing--post-production edits--happens ALL the time. ALL. 98%+ of our clients make edits/tweaks, once they see their books in a new format, e.g., PDF or ePUB/MOBI. More than half only make a handful--1-5 edits, minor things. Not a big deal. But the last year or so, we are getting an increasing number like this--hundreds of edits per book.
Hundreds. (We had a client that filled up over 2,000 edits on our proof forms. TWO THOUSAND.) Unfurtunately, a lot of these--like this 117--aren't just after the book is produced, but AFTER it's
published, as well.
Not our doing, you understand? Theirs.
Hitch