Category: Industry Information
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From Vinyl to Voice: The History of Audiobooks and Why it Matters
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Authored by Ryan Lorenz, UNG Press Intern Pop in your earbuds, open an app, and within seconds you can be mid-chapter of the latest bestseller, all while commuting, cooking, painting, or folding laundry. Audiobooks feel like a thoroughly modern convenience, and yet their roots stretch back nearly a century (Thoet).…
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A Beginner’s Guide to the Stages of Editing
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Authored by Vanessa Reyes, UNG Press Intern Once you are lucky enough to have your manuscript picked up for publication, it may sound like a happy ending, but it is rather a beautiful beginning. From this point on, your writing will go through the four stages of editing and become…
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Inside the Reader’s Report: Publishing’s Guardian at the Gate
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Authored by Ryan Lorenz, UNG Press Intern | Banner Image “Report” by Nick Youngson CC BY-SA 3.0 Pix4free.org When it comes to the realm of book publishing, publishers get hundreds, if not thousands of queries a year from authors seeking publication within their catalog. Publishers may find it time-consuming to go through…
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A Deep Dive on Developmental Editing
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Authored by Cheyenne Clenney, UNG Press Intern When a manuscript hits the desk for its first assessment by an editor, it will go through the first step of the editing process: developmental editing. Due to its importance of improving structure, content, and other big picture focuses, developmental editing is a…
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Line Editing in Publishing: A Breakdown
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Authored by Madelyn Huff, UNG Press Intern The editing process can seem daunting for beginners. I remember learning about each stage in an Introduction to Publishing course; I quickly found out that mastering any stage of editing would take much practice and learning from others! Regardless of where your knowledge…
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Style Guides vs. Style Sheets
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Authored by Cheyenne Clenney, UNG Press Intern Frequent spelling, punctuation, and grammar errors are to be expected when an editor begins the process of revising a manuscript. To ensure the revisions are consistent and cohesive throughout, an official set of guidelines is essential. Style guides are the rulebooks of style,…
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An Introduction to Style Guides
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Authored by Madelyn Huff, UNG Press Intern Style guides are guides that dictate how a writing piece should be written. Style guides create guidelines for page formatting, citation style, spelling choice, and more. This practice establishes a familiarity that can be traced throughout all documents that utilize the particular guide.…
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The Basics of Book Metadata
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Authored by Cheyenne Clenney, UNG Press Intern How do you sort through the millions of options available in physical and digital bookstores? What makes one book stand out in an endless sea of similar titles? That is where metadata comes in—the behind-the-scenes information that helps categorize books. What is Book…