Where can I get volunteer editing experience in the Portland, OR area, or via the internet? [more inside]
posted by Caduceus on Nov 3, 2009 - 4 answers

EmploymentFilter: I will soon have a job interview to be a copy editor/proofreader for a scientific publishing company. What sort of questions can I expect my interviewer to ask? [more inside]
posted by Jon_Evil on May 14, 2009 - 7 answers

Does anyone still use Words into Type? [more inside]
posted by scratch on Feb 18, 2009 - 6 answers

Adobe InDesign: Why, when moving pages around within a document, will it cause the design elements (all frames, text boxes, graphics, etc.) on the following pages to shift 1/8" to the left or right? [more inside]
posted by cuddles.mcsnuggy on Jul 27, 2008 - 11 answers

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 by andeles on Feb 26, 2008 - 17 answers

What are "heading notes"? This is a book publishing question, not computer programming. [more inside]
posted by anonymous 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 by dr_dank 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 by zadermatermorts on Dec 7, 2006 - 3 answers

Career change advice sought! Help me make the switch to editing/publishing. [more inside]
posted by Miko 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 by different on Dec 10, 2004 - 16 answers