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All I know about publishing is from reading Charles Stross' blog (especially http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/04/common-misconceptions-about-pu-
by unwind 16y ago
All I know about publishing is from reading Charles Stross' blog (especially http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/04/common-misconceptions-about-pu-1.html http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/04/common-m...), but doesn't manuscript-submit in November 2011 and publishing in February 2012 seem awfully fast?
- blahedo 16y agoThat's only the final manuscript---he's got a draft now and the editing process will be ongoing well before November.
- tlb 16y agoIt also seems very slow. Why does proofreading and typesetting take more than 2-3 days?
- rprasad 16y agoManuscripts come filled with errors, and it takes a lot of time to find all of them and correct them. Errors include punctuation, spelling, grammar, word choice and even style. It's not just something you can leave to a speedreader or a computer program. Typesetting is the precursor to (web) page design. There's a lot of work involved. Programs like Adobe inDesign streamline the tedious aspects of page design, but not the work that goes into actually designing the look of each page.