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

[Sharon Fisher]

Daniel, that's why print journalists write in inverted pyramid.

On Fri, Feb 8, 2019, 3:45 PM Gabe Goldberg <gabe at gabegold.com> wrote:

> 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>
> wrote:
>
> Esther: The rest of the article is me. Of course, she stepped on my
> closing sentence. Sigh.
>
>
>
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