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Subject:Re: What's on your TC bookshelf? From:Michele Davis <michele -at- krautgrrl -dot- com> To:Chuck Martin <cm -at- writeforyou -dot- com> Date:Wed, 10 Sep 2003 19:46:54 -0500
Hello all,
I can actually answer this question. The husband and I wrote an Oracle
book and the publisher was going to "withdraw" $3.50 per page from us,
which was half of the indexer's per page rate to have our book indexed.
I have saved myself and my co-authors money by doing the indexing
myself. $7/page is low, and indexing is hard, IMO. So Chuck is
absolutely correct.
Michele
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Michele
"I've learned that sometimes all a person needs is a hand
to hold and a heart to understand." Andy Rooney
www.krautgrrl.com
Chuck Martin wrote:
"Susan W. Gallagher" <sgallagher5 -at- cox -dot- net> wrote in message news:212593 -at- techwr-l -dot- -dot- -dot-
I bought Horton's Online book when it first came out and
refuse to buy anything else by him until he learns to index!
Not to defend Horton, but I have to ask: was the indexing done by him?
I do believe that many, if not most, book publishers have professional
indexers in their employ to perform that task.
