Have you done a technical book review?

[Joshua Judson Rosen]

mark <prgrmr at gmail.com> writes:
>
> Bingo! Why pay for a professional editor when they can get that
> piggybacked on a much less costly service like a review?

So, approach it like anything else: if it needs work that you'd
be willing to do for pay, say that. e.g.:

    It's difficult to evaluate this book for technical content
    due to the English being borderline unreadable; it shows
    that the author is a non-native speaker and the text has not
    yet had sufficient basic editing work done.

and/or:

    This book needs significant editing work to make the English
    comprehensible before it can be reviewed based on its technical
    merits. I can do the editing myself if you'd like, and _then_
    do a technical review, but I'd need to charge you ${PRICE}
    for the editing work.


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> On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 11:53 AM, Greg Rundlett (freephile) <
> greg at freephile.com> wrote:
>
>     On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 11:44 AM, Seth Cohn <sethcohn at gnuhampshire.org>
>     wrote:
>    
>         I did tech review for "Pro Drupal 7 for Windows Developers", and it
>         was an ok experience.
>
>     Thanks.
>    
>      
>    
>         If you are doing editing of English, then the actual Editor isn't
>         doing their job.  You should be only doing tech review, not grammar,
>         etc.
>
>     I agree.
>    
>     I have the feeling that in this day and age of self-publishing and print
>     on demand, that they may be dramatically loosening their editorial
>     standards and seeing what projects come out the other end of the pipeline.
>      But I can't see how that would be a profitable way to run things.  Unless
>     they get an editor to work for free (like me).
>
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