>The biggest issue I have in editing is that the official language of the book is American English, and I'm British, so I'm having to constantly correct my spel

>The biggest issue I have in editing is that the official language of the book is American English, and I'm British, so I'm having to constantly correct my spellings. Changing 's' for 'z', removing silent 'u's, that sort of thing. So no copy editing then? Thats the literal job of the copy editor, the author shouldnt be thinking about this at all. what are o'reilly doing to justify their 90% cut?