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may offer the palate and the purse very different fare! The typicalscenario goes like this: You establish a budget for a book, accept a bid, and place the work with a typesetter. During the course of production, there will be errors to mar the quality of the book, but everyone hesitates to make valuable changes, fearful of incurring an alteration charge and a time-consuming and demoralizing "battle of the bill." Changes to the compositor's master file exclusive of printer's errors
are calculated as alterations—a manuscript with even an average
amount of editing has significant alterations. The typesetter counts
the alterations and adds this cost to the original estimate. You pay
composition costs of 110% (or more) of the original bid—and then
absorb this additional cost yourself or alienate your author by charging
"excessive" AAs as a royalty advance. Look at some of your recent composition bills from other providers
and compare the final charges with their original estimates. Even after
charging some of the overage to your authors' royalty accounts, your
final cost may be 10, 15, even 20 percent higher than the quote you
approved. Generic's cost estimate is your finalcost—it includes allalteration
costs. Naturally, the author can't submit a replacement disk or an additional
chapter and consider these AAs; but in the normal course of review and
revision, Generic won't charge extra for alterations. That's right—Generic does not charge for AAs.We acknowledge
that errors are a reality and we believe it is best to correct them
without recriminations or delay. We don't "low-ball" cost estimates
and then make it up by charging an extra ten percent. We estimate honestly
and bill for the amount we agreed upon—not more. And your manufacturing
department will be glad to know that this policy extends into the reprint
stage: Generic securely archives all projects and will provide electronic
files for corrections at no charge throughout the life of the book. Rather than penalize your author or your budget for improvements, we encourage the effort toward perfection.
where we expect a healthier shelf-life.
For further information, please email us email us . Please include your name, affiliation, and areas of interest, and we will get back to you quickly.
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