On Tue, 16 Jun 2009 09:34:31 +0100, Invisible wrote:

>>> Heh. When I was at uni, we discovered that our Java lecturer had
>>> published a Java book. It was on Amazon, and not one reviewer had
>>> anything good to say about it. ;-) Apparently it was riddled with
>>> spelling and gramatical errors, sentences that didn't make sense,
>> 
>> Sounds like the publisher did a crap job in hiring an editor.
> 
> ...they hired an editor? ;-)
> 
> What, they didn't just print it because it was written by a university
> professor?

Being a University Professor doesn't guarantee that they can actually 
write coherently. :-)

The publishers I have dealt with didn't care what your skills were as a 
writer, going through an editorial review is a mandatory step.  I 
rejected 95% of the proposed changes from the editor because I do write 
that well <g>.  My co-author, on the other hand, has a PhD. in nuclear 
physics, but as I mentioned before, his first language is Chinese.  
Having an editor in his case was essential.

Jim

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