tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8463395374040679379.post2774154352699302656..comments2023-12-12T16:30:15.159+00:00Comments on Floor to Ceiling Books: Ten Things I Never Knew About PublishingUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8463395374040679379.post-31600785059728379002014-08-07T04:15:54.631+01:002014-08-07T04:15:54.631+01:00Re: #5 - Maybe it would be better to say in some c...Re: #5 - Maybe it would be better to say in some cases that a book hasn't been edited properly, or edited well. A book may have seen an editor and may be quite changed from the original manuscript, but if there are still continuity errors and problems larger than the occasional typo and all of a sudden a certain character is being referred to by an entirely different name, then even if the book did pass through the hands of an editor who worked on it, then I don't really think they did they job well.<br /><br />You're definitely right in that readers pretty much never get to see the original manuscript and compare it to the finished product (though man, do I ever wish I could sometimes, out of sheer glorious curiosity!), but I think it's possible in some cases to comment on the editing even when you don't know just how far it's come. Sometimes the two choices are that it either hasn't been edited at all, or it needs to be edited again. You can sometimes tell even when you don't know the book's beginnings.<br /><br />I mostly mention this because I actually wrote something on that topic recently about major errors in ARCs and whether it's permissable to comment on them in reviews. Not piddly little typos or stuff you can handwave away, but incorrect word usage and characters changing names between one page and the next. Stuff that indicates that the book is still in need of another once-over.Bibliotropichttp://www.bibliotropic.netnoreply@blogger.com