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Pages, proofs, and possibilities
How Books Are Made
English - September 13, 2020 23:14 - 36 minutes - 49.8 MBBooks Arts Business books ebooks publishing websites web development book production Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Books are enormously complex creations, and clearing them of errors takes the immense, repeated effort of editors and proofreaders. Proofreaders are unsung heroes, who often work best with pencil and coloured pens, and a stack of publishing reference books. Today, they’re often asked to mark up corrections on screen in PDF – but is that really best? In this episode, Arthur talks about that with editor and entrepreneur John Pettigrew, the founder of Futureproofs. How can we innovate in this part of the publishing process? And what lessons can we learn here about innovation in publishing more broadly?
Links from the show:
FutureproofsBook MachineThe Chicago Manual of StyleNew Oxford Style ManualButcher’s Copy-editingThe Elements of Typographic Style, by Robert Bringhurst