Another question for the authors

[neadods]

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?

Comments

[neadods.livejournal.com]

Wonder if they're actually a vanity house or something, and she's had to pay for all of it?

That's my impression. I also get an impression of great defensiveness in the huffing "this is the way things are done" answer.