Joy wrote
> Can anyone tell me if ARCs are proofread and
corrected before they become
> books in the warehouse? I surely do hope so. I'm
reading an ARC for
review,
> and I've rarely seen more errors, even in first
pages.
>
Depends rather in my experience. If it's a true ARC (rather
than a bound uncorrected proof) then it's likely to be very
close to the finished article. Generally, if it's typeset
like a real book then the publishers probably aren't going to
spend any more money proofreading it. I received little
thanks from one publisher for pointing out, having read an
advance copy of Jay McInerney's Last of the Savages, that
he'd managed to have the year 1968 happen twice in
succession. Recently had an uncorrected proof of Crais'
Hostage - obviously not a finished book as it was clearly
photocopied form the author's manuscript - including a
chapter in which incautious use of the old 'find and replace'
function - presumably to change a character's name from Don
to Larry - resulted in people saying to each other things
like 'I larry't believe you.'
John
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