In the past few years, I've read a few books put out by big five publishers that obviously never even crossed the
desk of a copy editor.
The company has also started offering editing services through a
network of copy editors at a cost is about 1 cent per word for copy editing and 0.5 cent per word for proofreading.
This 1985 effort to reach editors and publishers used the language and
tools of copy editors to get the word out about the proper use and presentation of the word REALTOR ®.
The
army of copy editors and fact - checkers suggests that magazines believe the print version is more important by far: What appears on the blogs doesn't count, unless it is so egregious that even the subscribers of the print magazine and the advertisers start complaining.
The presence of a recognizable publisher's name speaks to the technical quality of the book, a book that has benefited from the
involvement of a copy editor, a developmental editor, and other team members.
Quick Tip: Proofread of course, but enlist the services
of a copy editor before submitting your manuscript to anyone whether you're self - publishing or not.
Publishing Glossary If you are trying to understand the difference between trade paperback and mass market paperback or decipher the
meaning of a copy editor, then it makes sense to quickly go through a glossary of publishing terms and bring yourself up to speed.
If you obsess over hyphens and never split an infinitive, you may want to read American Journalism Review's Style Wars in Cyberspace, about the growing
number of copy editors writing blogs about grammar and style.