Should an author index her own book?
Should an author index her own book? On first look, the author seems the perfect person to index her book: Who knows that book better than the author? So, should an author index her own book? It depends. One factor is the publishing schedule. If the book is on a tight to-printer schedule then the […]
Embedded Indexes: A Trend in Publishing
Embedded Indexes: A Trend in Publishing The words you write could be published in a book, on a CD-ROM, on a website, or in a format we’re not yet aware of. To handle this repurposing, publishers are increasingly embedding book indexes into the Word manuscript documents so that the index marks are associated with the […]