By Corina Koch MacLeod and Carla Douglas Do you proofread your book after it’s been laid out for print or formatted for e-reading? You should. Proofreading is the last stage of the editorial process and its goal is to catch any errors that the writer, editor,...
I’ve made my living for the past couple of decades almost exclusively from swimming in various parts of the pool that is the publishing world. I’ve been a publisher, a developmental editor, a line (or substantive) editor, a copy editor, a proofreader, a...
Adobe’s Portable Document Format (PDF) has turned out to be a big winner when it comes to broad adoption across the web for a variety of uses. From print-ready files to full-color ebooks, PDFs are the lingua franca of the internet. In book publishing, the first...
Did you see the story the other day about Jonathan Franzen, the novelist whose latest book, Freedom, has made quite a splash? Franzen was off to England to promote the release of the book there, when there was a glitch. As reported in the Telegraph UK, Book firm...