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This is very interesting. Proofreading as a service could be used by so many content companies out there. I guess for something long like a book it would make
by ivan_ah 13y ago
This is very interesting. Proofreading as a service could be used by so many content companies out there.
I guess for something long like a book it would make more sense to have the same person proofread the entire thing, but for blog posts and other text, parallelism could be very powerful.
I'm not sure how the pricing will work out though:
$0.004/w = $1.4/page = $350 for my book
this is 1/6 of what I paid to my copy editor. Who will work for such a low wage?
Last but not least, does it all have to be through-the-web. I find I catch a lot more mistakes on paper.
Either way, I wish you good luck with your business and I will be following the developments closely.
- lsb 13y agoSometimes copyeditors fix really subtle problems, sometimes copyeditors fix really obvious problems. This should help fix the obvious problems, and make their time better-spent!
- lmeyerov 13y agoRight, looking at crowdsourcing (the main proofist site) was born out of my frustration that most copyediting comments are for simple mistakes that anyone could have caught. I want to make ours cheap enough that you can get 10-20 pairs of eyes per piece of text and without the usual wait. This game is an experiment to make it free, and if we get mass, can get the desired level of matching. (In just one hour, we're already a hit with educators in math/science!)