Sunday, 6 January 2008
Proofs
The Proofs of our book have been sent to us - yet another reminder that somebody actually wants this to be published! Still a very strange idea. It is a comfort that at least one person has read and thought about every single word before copies start running off the presses. But now we have to plough through all the proposed changes and accept or reject them all. It's a long job, which I intend to do my share of over the weekend with a large glass of red wine to hand.
One curious point which we will have to raise with our editor is that the proofreader has Americanised the entire text. I can quite see why it would make sense for the American edition to refer to "college" instead of university and not refer to "cock-ups" and to have z's instead of s's but it does seem very peculiar for a British edition of a book written by two Britons to include these trans-Atlantic oddities.
More to follow...
One curious point which we will have to raise with our editor is that the proofreader has Americanised the entire text. I can quite see why it would make sense for the American edition to refer to "college" instead of university and not refer to "cock-ups" and to have z's instead of s's but it does seem very peculiar for a British edition of a book written by two Britons to include these trans-Atlantic oddities.
More to follow...
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