[Discuss] Have you done a technical book review?

Greg Rundlett (freephile) greg at freephile.com
Tue Nov 19 11:53:35 EST 2013


On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 11:44 AM, Seth Cohn <sethcohn at gnuhampshire.org>wrote:

> I did tech review for "Pro Drupal 7 for Windows Developers", and it
> was an ok experience.
>
>
Thanks.



> If you are doing editing of English, then the actual Editor isn't
> doing their job.  You should be only doing tech review, not grammar,
> etc.
>
> I agree.

I have the feeling that in this day and age of self-publishing and print on
demand, that they may be dramatically loosening their editorial standards
and seeing what projects come out the other end of the pipeline.  But I
can't see how that would be a profitable way to run things.  Unless they
get an editor to work for free (like me).



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