[Ipg-smz] A question for everyone, particularly Esther Schindler

[Gabe Goldberg]

Early 1990s I co-edited three doorstop-size technology books for 
McGraw-Hill. They said it was cheaper for us to produce camera-ready 
copy (at $15/page!) than to do it themselves. So we'd print pages, send 
to them, they'd mark up, send back, and we'd decide what to do. We 
didn't make all changes because some of them were nonsense -- changing 
command syntax, inflicting confusing language/punctuation.

We made more on typesetting than we received as advance. And for better 
or worse, we owned the final product -- mostly clean but including some 
doozies.

On 2/8/2019 5:15 PM, Esther Schindler wrote:
> You can use it, then — as long as it’s part of a conversation.
>
> Also this whole thread demonstrates why I (nearly) always send the 
> writer an Author Review to ensure my changes don’t insert errors of 
> any kind. I never want Alan to be surprised by a cheeseburger.
>
>> On Feb 8, 2019, at 10:09 AM, Carol Pinchefsky 
>> <will_edit_for_food at mac.com <mailto:will_edit_for_food at mac.com>> wrote:
>>
>> Esther: The rest of the article is me. Of course, she stepped on my 
>> closing sentence. Sigh.
>
>
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