Most aspects of U.S. publishing have been outsourced to Asia, even
copyediting, some of which is now being insourced for obvious reasons.
I blame multimillion-dollar advances for celebrity books, few of
which make money for publishers after all is said and done.
Joy
gsp.schoo@MOT.com aka Kerry wrote:
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