Editors have long been publishing's hidden handmaidens – what might we gain if we acknowledged their role?
- Written by: Alice Grundy, PhD Candidate, Australian National University
Editors are almost always unseen and unheard – until something goes wrong. That might be a relatively minor mistake, such as a typo – as in a cookbook that mistakenly listed “people” instead of “pepper” in a recipe. Or it could be more substantial questions about the integrity of a book’s contents.
In 2018,...