Post-collegefilter: I'm trying to figure out what I want to do with my life, and have decided I want to try to break into the publishing industry. Are certificate programs the way to go? [more inside]
posted on Feb 26, 2008 - 17 answers

What are "heading notes"? This is a book publishing question, not computer programming. [more inside]
posted on Dec 16, 2007 - 5 answers

If you spot misspellings in a book, should you notify the author or the publisher? Or will it not even matter?
posted on Apr 7, 2007 - 29 answers

I'm interested in becoming certified by the Board of Editors in the Life Sciences. Their Web site is rather cryptic: apparently they only send you the particulars of what the exam entails once you have applied to take it. Has anyone taken this exam or known someone who has? What's it like? Moreover, do you have a sense of how professionally useful the certification is at all? [more inside]
posted on Dec 7, 2006 - 3 answers

Career change advice sought! Help me make the switch to editing/publishing. [more inside]
posted on Apr 14, 2006 - 5 answers

Friends who write books: My question is simple. If a friend has had a book published (not their first by any means) by a well-known publisher and one notices several typos in the text, is it best not to mention them? Or is it polite to commiserate with said friend over the lack of thoroughness on the part of the publisher? I don't want to be rude, but I want to show that I really have read the book.
posted on Dec 10, 2004 - 16 answers