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Originally Posted by ahi
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I think that human format editing will be lessened as much as possible, the way that proofreading has been largely turned over to word processing programs.
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That doesn't sound true... Elfwreck. Not with regards to published books. Do you have well-founded reasons to believe so? |
In the ebook market, certainly. Many people have verified typo's and OCR errors in ebooks, that are the result of auto-OCR programs with the "correction" obviously being "throw it into Word and run the spellcheck." So any OCR error that resulted in a real word stays in the final copy.
In pbooks, less so, but there have been the same kinds of things: there, they're, and their applied randomly; apostrophe abuse that any fourth-grade student should be able to catch; weird hyphenations not caught.
I don't think any (large) publishing houses have eliminated human proofreading, but they've cut back on it, expecting programs to catch the bulk of it and assuming readers won't care about what gets through.