Originally Posted by Hitch
S/he could, but then we'd have to reconvert the material to the output formats--PDF, ePUB/MOBI. We do our PDF work in InDesign, and of course we do the eBook work in HTML. There isn't any viable way to get edits from, say, a Word file--like somebody uses track changes--to an ePUB. Not automatically or in any fashion like that. Once the ebook is made, the edits have to be done by human hands. Ditto the production files in InDesign, for the print interior.
In some ways, I miss the "good old days," when authors had to understand what it took, for the publishers to make edits. Now? S**t, now, they think that because you can open Word and make changes and hit "save," that's how EVERYTHING works. It's sooooooooooooooooooooo frustrating. And all the other things that authors had to learn/do, back then?
Things like hiring proofers, or bartering for those services, via a critique group or writer's group? Or, hell, using a writing group AT ALL, to improve one's writing skills? Pah, I laugh at your naivete, to think that that's still the way. Pah!, I say! We don't need no old-fashioned stinkin' writing skills, I tell ya.
Yup, hundreds. I think I said this--we had a client with >2K errors. TWO THOUSAND? How do you miss two THOUSAND errors?
I dunno, man. I just don't know. I was so beat up today, I actually left the office "early" (at 1:30, having gone in at 5:30) and laid down and slept for a few hours. In the middle of the day. Sheeeeesh.
Hitch
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