I have a question about that 10% -- it says 10% excluding printer errors, so is there any situation where the 10% would include anything other than things the author later decided to change? I assume typos, cut out text, repeated text, etc. would all count as printer errors. Basically, what I'm asking is, if the version you submitted to the publisher is (in a perfect world, of course!) exactly what you want to be printed, could there be any type of change that would still count in that 10%? (Also, I assume author typos would be counted as part of this, and not as printer errors?
Keeping in mind that I said that I've never heard of an author who has actually been charged for corrections...
No, I can't think of anything that would otherwise be included. If you don't see copy-edits, on the other hand, the galleys are the first time you see the line-edits or punctuation changes, etc., done to your book, and in that case, I consider those "printer errors". I'm sure that they're not considered printer errors by the other side of the fence though <wry g>..
Author typos shouldn't count as part of this, fwiw, since they were in theory caught by either the line-editor or the copy-editor before the book was sent to production to be typeset.
So... if you handed in the perfect book in every way, and the book needed no line-editing and received zero copy-editing and went to production As-Is (which, ummm, happens never), then no, there would be no changes that would count as part of the 10%.
You would, however, be surprised at what stages an author suddenly leaps up in a horrible OHMYGOD frenzy because they've just realized that they forgot to change something important...
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Date: 2004-09-17 06:03 pm (UTC)Keeping in mind that I said that I've never heard of an author who has actually been charged for corrections...
No, I can't think of anything that would otherwise be included. If you don't see copy-edits, on the other hand, the galleys are the first time you see the line-edits or punctuation changes, etc., done to your book, and in that case, I consider those "printer errors". I'm sure that they're not considered printer errors by the other side of the fence though <wry g>..
Author typos shouldn't count as part of this, fwiw, since they were in theory caught by either the line-editor or the copy-editor before the book was sent to production to be typeset.
So... if you handed in the perfect book in every way, and the book needed no line-editing and received zero copy-editing and went to production As-Is (which, ummm, happens never), then no, there would be no changes that would count as part of the 10%.
You would, however, be surprised at what stages an author suddenly leaps up in a horrible OHMYGOD frenzy because they've just realized that they forgot to change something important...