Julie Broad explains why revising your book after layout begins costs thousands in re-formatting and new errors. Finish your content edits, fact checks, and copyediting before layout starts, or pay to redo the whole thing.
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Expensive. Mistake number two getting the book to layout, which is the interior formatting phase, and then deciding to revise an entire chapter or make a big revision to make changes that are more than a word, edit or punctuation. Change in layout means the entire book has to be laid out again and reviewed to make sure errors didn't come up anywhere else. If it isn't double or triple checked, the new errors can arise, causing another edit to be needed. So sometimes changes in layout can't be avoided. But generally speaking, taking a little extra time when your book is in edit to make sure you're comfortable and happy with the content will make the layout phase so much simpler, easier, and faster, which also usually means cheaper. We help authors go through the editing phase with fact checks, putting books through three different kinds of edits content edit, copyedit, and proofread. And we also do quality control checks as well.