Pandora's Box - Social Issues of the Information Age

[a_cubed]

Well, enough of the book is now revised so that it can go in to a new publisher for consideration. Only the first three chapters are going in, together with a revised summary of the rest, and all the other gubbins that they want with a book proposal. Still, I've done most of the revisions on seven chapters in total, so it's coming along. Hopefully Wiley, the publisher we're sending it to, will like it and get it moving along quickly. They certainly don't currently have any up to date books in this area and they're a big worldwide house, so they seem a sensible choice.

Comments

[nesacat.livejournal.com]

Good Luck ... shall keep paws and tail crossed for you.

[daniasqui.livejournal.com]

Why do you need to revise the book in order to submit it to a new publisher? Do they run some sort of "we must own your book before we can consider publishing it" policy?

Wiley seems like a pretty respectable place to get published. Who was the original publisher that backed out?

Revision for new publisher

[a-cubed.livejournal.com]

We went all the way through too lots of copy editing with the old publisher, which resulted ina number of improvements to the text. No point in going through all that again with a new copyeditor, as they're likely to come up with substantially the same suggestions.

Also, some of the material was written two years ago now and this subject moves on so fast that it needs updating - particularly for pi9eces where we wrote "at time of writing, the final out come of (court case, legislation...) is undecided" and which has now been decided.

The revisions aren't too horrendous - it's taking me about three hours per chapter to do, but it should make the final manuscript quicker to publish and better overall.