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Subject:Re: What does $3 a page mean to you? From:"Bonnie Granat" <bgranat -at- granatedit -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Thu, 22 Apr 2004 09:53:52 -0400
The client's response:
"It should have always been understood that it was book pages.
Proofing, indexing, composition are all by the book page and so we do
copyedits by the book page to keep it consistent. I know it sounds a
little backwards, but that's the way it is. You'll see on the memo I
sent you that it says per book page."
The memo he is referring to is the memo that was delivered via UPS
with a CD containing the manuscript and a printout of the figures for
the book.
"It does have the sentence: Enclosed please find the text files and
figure printouts for the above title. Assuming payment of $3 per book
page, plese edit and code this book in Microsoft Word, using the
copyediting guidelines, production guidelines, and coding styles."
I read the memo and wasn't concerned at the presence of that word
"book" because the memo was not our agreement!
Now I can either respond to the publisher and say that, or I can
submit an invoice and write them off.
They ARE ripping me off, because we had an agreement for "$3 a page"
and only later did they sneak in the word "book" to modify "page" --
and not in any agreement.
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