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Another question for the authors
Long story short - an author sent me an unbound ms to review for RtE. I wrote back and said that I needed publication info (price, ISBN, page count, etc) for the review and that an unbound ms was kinda hard to read and I looked forward to an advance copy.
The author emailed me the missing info and informs me that unbound advanced review copies were common in the review industry.
Question: Are they? Is a sheaf of plain paper printed 2-pages on one sheet, landscape, really par the course?
Question #2: Who pays for these? The argument is that the ms was sent to me at great personal expense of the author, but a bound ARC would be even more expensive to the author. By that point, aren't they getting into the costs covered by the press as part of doing business?
The author emailed me the missing info and informs me that unbound advanced review copies were common in the review industry.
Question: Are they? Is a sheaf of plain paper printed 2-pages on one sheet, landscape, really par the course?
Question #2: Who pays for these? The argument is that the ms was sent to me at great personal expense of the author, but a bound ARC would be even more expensive to the author. By that point, aren't they getting into the costs covered by the press as part of doing business?
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*perks up* That sounds like fun!
What I've got currently in the RtE stack are about a dozen paperbacks, one hardback, and two bound uncorrected proofs... and this manuscript. Had I realized what she was going to do, I would have asked her for an electronic copy and printed it in my own preferred format.