>Just out of curiousity: how much did Verso "edit" your Wall Sreet
>book? I mean, did some fact-checker go through all your citations or
>did they basically just print your ms as is?
Virtually no editing at all. A right-wing student who used Wall Street in a class, and was very displeased, factchecked it and came up empty-handed.
This isn't unusual for trade book publishing. Unless a work is likely to provoke litigation, it's barely checked at all. Some copy-editors will do some checking, but there's nothing formal. University presses usually send out manuscripts for review by scholars in the field, so they may notice errors because of their expertise. But there too there's no formal fact-checking, as there is with The New Yorker.
>As an aside, I remember speaking once to an editor at SEP who told me
>that Chomsky required that his mss be printed "as is" (no editing
>allowed).
Yup. Verso pub'd a book of his years ago and tried to make some edits. Chomsky would have none of it.
Doug