Category Archives: copyediting

Bite-Size Goes Social

By hugh on February 19, 2010 in books, technology | 1 Comment

A recent study, done by Roger Bohn of UC San Diego, estimates that the average American consumes about 36,000 words of text per day, during leisure hours. That number includes print, email, the web, and text messaging. That’s a lot of text. At that rate the average American could read Moby Dick every week.
The question [...]

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Updating a Translation of the Iliad

By hugh on December 16, 2009 in bookoven | 2 Comments

We just launched Bite-Size Edits as a stand-alone site, a bare-bones collaborative editing engine (see here for a bit of detail). We’ll be adding more features back in, and some really exciting new ones. It’ll be a brand new way for readers, writers and editors to engage with each other.
In the mean time, we [...]

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Launching bitesizeedits.com

By hugh on in bookoven | 2 Comments

When we started Book Oven, we came up with this … intriguing … idea of Bite-Size Edits, a new way to think about proofreading. Proofreading and copyediting are tough, honorable jobs, and they’re essential for the production of good texts.
But, what if you could break up the job of a proofreader, let a few [...]

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Check You’re Copy

By hugh on October 11, 2008 in editing | 1 Comment

A senior staff member at The Guardian was none too pleased with last Sunday’s Express edition. Says said staff members in an email to writers and subeditors:
Last week’s Sunday Express was riddled with appalling, slapdash and lazy writing and subbing. The style sheets handed out were studiously ignored, as can be seen by the [...]

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