Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Editors: You Count!


From a review in this week's TLS:

"All writers make mistakes, and someone could find plenty of them in any unedited manuscript of mine. But we count on publishers to provide an essential safety net in the form of good copyediting and proofreading. Here, Oxford University Press has let its author down, to a degree I have never seen in a published book. Whatever the cause, it is an insult to readers and writers alike when a piece of work edited with such negligence is put out by a press renowned for publishing some of the most distinguished books in our language."

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