Actually, I have not been following the thread and assumed that despite the title it had now evolved into a more generic discussion about the book publishing/editing process in general. Sorry for the confusion.
>>> I think I've probably been lucky in that often if editors make any significant changes, <<< I've had both situations. One thing I'll throw in here is that without a doubt, the MS Press people are *by far* the best I've ever worked with. -----Original Message----- From: dotnet discussion [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Simon Robinson Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2002 10:38 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [DOTNET] Wrox Just to clarify/set the record straight - the subject of this thread still says 'Wrox' but as far as I can see on a quick search on amazon.com, neither Dean nor Tom have ever written for Wrox - so I'm guessing these particular complaints actually concern other publishers. Dean/Tom - is that correct? (Sorry to be pedantic but in the context of this thread it's probably important to be clear about that). (And I do sympathize about the problem. I think I've probably been lucky in that often if editors make any significant changes, I've tended to either be asked explicitly or shown the result for approval before printing.) Simon --------------------------------------------------------------- Simon Robinson http://www.SimonRobinson.com --------------------------------------------------------------- ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom Archer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2002 10:20 AM Subject: Re: [DOTNET] Wrox > Tell me about it :( I've had editors put in remarks like "I see you did such > and such and so I changed it. Is that ok?" I'm like "only if you don't care > if the code works or not" :) > > I think we all have our stories of situations like that where the change was > made after our edits, ends up in the book and we look like heck for it :( > > > -----Original Message----- > From: dotnet discussion [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of > Dean Cleaver > Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2002 5:10 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [DOTNET] Wrox > > > Yeah - although when my chapter of a book was published years ago (was > on ISAPI), the editors waited till the last version from me to change > some things really drastically - like they changed "OLEISAPI 2.0" to > "OLEISAPI to". I was so livid when I finally received the book, I could > not believe what they had done. I had to read the paragraph 3 times to > even realise myself what they had changed it made so little sense... > > Dino > > -----Original Message----- > From: dotnet discussion [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of > Simon Robinson > Sent: Thursday, 25 April 2002 20:56 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [DOTNET] Wrox > > As someone's just reminded me, I should also say the > reviewers do a lot of work checking through the chapters, and usually > chapters get vastly improved as a result of their efforts. Sorry for > leaving them out. > > --- > Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > Version: 6.0.351 / Virus Database: 197 - Release Date: 19/04/2002 > > You can read messages from the DOTNET archive, unsubscribe from DOTNET, or > subscribe to other DevelopMentor lists at http://discuss.develop.com. > > You can read messages from the DOTNET archive, unsubscribe from DOTNET, or > subscribe to other DevelopMentor lists at http://discuss.develop.com. > You can read messages from the DOTNET archive, unsubscribe from DOTNET, or subscribe to other DevelopMentor lists at http://discuss.develop.com. You can read messages from the DOTNET archive, unsubscribe from DOTNET, or subscribe to other DevelopMentor lists at http://discuss.develop.com.
