During my studies I did several internships in publishing. seems to me the Lector Organize still be a creative dream job somewhere between writing and. This is of course not entirely wrong, but the impression that forces itself upon you when you first with a young (non-fiction) Published as campus at will, and then at a venerable institution such as the Scientific Book Company in Darmstadt (almost a book club in the next thousand Alt-philologists and history teachers, among other things, the Pope is a member), that the professional image editor could not be more different.
In a modern non-fiction publishing an editor sits on the phone, the subjects of future books, organized writers and image rights to do so. Of course, one also often finished manuscripts offered this classic way to book is now much less frequently. Instead, is geared to success recipes, book series and looks to the competition. So I was during my internship especially busy English-language non-fiction querzulesen and assess how the competition looked to a possible publication on the German market and whether the topic was worth. This is terribly exciting when you read in the socio-political discourse must be, and a bit annoying when it comes to a biography of Arnold Schwarzenegger.
the other hand, the requirements for an editor are also rather to connect the authors in the butt and classic texts To check for errors - a task that one nowadays has also outsourced like the publishers. Image copyright must be obtained from any abstruse Italian libraries, of which we know well that you can get no answer because no one there speaks English. Then you take the humor, because the problem that every reader has in common, he has buried the most amazing book project, if the marketing department is not convinced. The marketing director is like the natural enemy of the lecturer.
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- Campus Verlag
- WBG
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