Janet Mackenzie
Aviva Tuffield reviews ‘At the Typeface: Selections from the newsletter of the Victorian society of editors’ edited by Janet Mackenzie
Aviva Tuffield
Tuesday, 01 August 2006
Sit down to read this book: it may give you a severe case of déjà vu. At the Typeface is an anthology of articles originally published in the Victorian Society of Editors’ newsletter between 1970 and early 2001 (since then the newsletters have been appearing online at www.socedvic.org). And, no surprises, the issues that trouble editors today have a long provenance: editors are underpaid and undervalued; marketing departments have more sway than editorial ones; publishers keep costs down by a reliance on freelancers; neophyte editors find it difficult to gain practical experience when there are few in-house positions.
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August 2006, no. 283