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I think it could! On a recent contract for writing e-learning materials I had an editor who was herself a subject expert going over the words, references and t

• _delirium 15y ago
  Hmm, interesting. That level of detail is fairly uncommon for academic publishing from what I know, though I am not too experienced myself. When someone like MIT Press publishes a book, the way I've heard the process described is that three external academic reviewers will give high-level feedback and make publish/don't-publish recommendations, and then one MIT Press editor not necessarily expert in the area will do layout/stylistic/copy/flow editing. But partly that's because they have a line to walk between providing real editing and quality control, but also providing a not-too-filtered platform for authors to put out their own views. I would hope that extensive plagiarism would be caught by one of the academic reviewers, though. Though with Course PTR it's probably more just lack of per-book resources. When you're rushing to get out a book that amounts to a manual for XNA 3.1, and you put out dozens of those books a year, there's only so much detailed editing you can give it.