Why Does It Take So Long?
Posted by Richard Dooling on February 2nd, 2008The hoary old adage is that publishing a book is like giving birth: It takes nine months. Nowadays, we have electronic typesetting, high-speed presses, print-on-demand, and oceans of text gushing through fiberoptic pipes onto computer screens all over the planet.
So why does it still take so long to publish a dead-tree edition? […]