Great excitement and hard work going on here. A book is being born in the Library! Final proofs are being read, infuriating editorial changes to complexly-cast sentences of infinite subtlety are being struck down (why do they do it? Library users of various disciplines have been reduced to quivering as months of work are annihilated by uncomprehending editorial intervention?).
And on Wednesday the last word on how to play the accompaniment of Italian music from the late 1500s to the late 18th century will set the presses rolling (well, modern technology given etc .).
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how exciting! meanwhile, here i am wondering how much editors get paid (not a lot ought to be the answer it sounds like when they misconstrue things so detrimentally).
but what would the salary of a journal editor be do we reckon?
It depends on the journal; a lot of academic journals are edited for nothing,solely for the prestige, though their subeditors get paid, if they are independent from the publishing house, of course.
Commercial undertakings, I have no idea, I only know about things like the EJ, or the Cambridge J. of Economics etc. Library members are on academic journal editorial boards, perhaps they will comment.
I suppose the owner of a journal which made a profit would get that but most academic journals have editorial boards and academic publishers and the publisher pays the costs and keeps any profit.
Magazines are another thing altogether.
Not very helpful, sorry.
Update, Book is printing tomorrow. Final, final proofs were checked, all seemed well when the smallest doubt was raised. Should Caccini's note to readers be called a preface or should the actual heading be used? On one fn only it had been called preface.
It was left as it stood. Imperfection somewhere hides us from the gods everywhere.
28 march is the date I found on internet for when it becomes available to the masses of ignorant continuo players in Europe and the United States.
But it is printing as we type, mini-error and all.
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