Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Walter Banks Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,comp.misc Subject: Re: ebooks Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 08:19:24 -0500 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 47 Message-ID: <5331825C.169EC269@bytecraft.com> References: <20140324150738.5356ce46db117f1d68f9734f@eircom.net> <533067cd$0$17082$c3e8da3$dd9697d2@news.astraweb.com> <5330744D.23831713@bytecraft.com> <20140325054909.075f1927b122401093f1eab9@eircom.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: t2jlYaRJ7Rdu8tV2mpXw1g.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en]C-CCK-MCD NSCPCD479 (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: csiph.com comp.misc:1971 Hils wrote: > On 2014-03-25 05:49, Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote: > > On Mon, 24 Mar 2014 13:07:09 -0500 > > Walter Banks wrote: > > > >> Publishers also provide editing services that puts authors works > >> in a form that can be understood by the intended audience in the > >> expected context. That is a skill set that very few authors have > >> (even very good ones). Editors also rarely make good authors. > > > > True, but I see no reason that editors couldn't become freelancers > > working for authors on commission. > > The idea of editors (working for a publisher, not for the author) being > indispensable seems unique to the written word. Could they become freelancers, sure and some are. The role of editors play for the most part in written word is to re-craft material for effective communication. > AFAIK art galleries do > not hire someone to tell visual artists how to make their work "better", > while the equivalent in (art) music has generally acted as little more > than a proofreader before handing the composer's manuscript to (in > pre-computer days) an engraver. The editor role diminishes a lot as the word content moves from primarily communication to art. An architect has support from engineers for parallel example. > The development of music software has enabled many composers to > self-publish their music: IMO this hasn't led to a flood of poor-quality > music, but has given composers a route to the public which does not go > through a very conservative publishing industry. The internet has opened a lot of promotion and distribution doors. And allowed a great deal of experimentation some successful most not so much w..