From: David Prosser <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2012 12:21:16 +0100
Some data from Cara Kaufman that she is happy for me to share with the list:
$7/page for basic copyediting (spelling, grammar, acronyms, references)
$25/page for more thoughtful editing (basic plus reorganization, some rewriting)
Hope that helps… Cara
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On 14 Jun 2012, at 09:44, David Prosser wrote:
For the purposes of comparison, could somebody point us to good
figures for the average amount (per page, say) spent on copyediting by
a solid, middle-tier journal? Not the very top-end journals, but one
you might find somewhere half-way down (or up) its category in the
journal citation rankings.
Thanks, David
On 13 Jun 2012, at 23:13, LIBLICENSE wrote:
From: Sandy Thatcher <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2012 01:20:26 -0500
Ok, I have read all of these articles now, and I see absolutely no
mention of one important cost factor that does not go away when one
moves from a TA to an OA model: copyediting. How, one wonders, does
PeerJ expect to provide professional copyediting for an author who
pays only $259 for a life membership when that is about what it would
cost to edit a single article? Can this new business plan really work
if copyediting is provided to an author for multiple articles over
time whose cost for editing will surely exceed, by multiples, the
initial membership fee? Or is there no mention of this because
copyediting will be a "value added" service for which authors will
have to pay an extra fee each time beyond the membership fee? The
"pre-prints" of course will not be copyedited, but surely PeerJ cannot
expect to sustain itself as a high-quality journal if it does not
provide first-rate copyediting for the "versions of record."
Sandy Thatcher
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