Anybody here work in academic publishing? What skills and experience

>>8726077
You ideally need to have experience in academia and the ability to quickly but accurately skim read articles and absorb the main ideas. Most people in publishing don't have the luxury of fully reading all of the papers they receive, not enough time.

>>8726082
Ligotti has said in interviews that he was able to read a tone of obscure fiction during his time at Gale (23 years) and that he found many "weird" writers through his work there. It seems like such a comfy job. I have an amazing memory but at the moment I'm wasting it in a job that requires me to remember data rather than information that may be beneficial to my literary ambitions.

>>8726102
Ligotti's job sounds very specialised, so I doubt there are many other people doing what he does. Does sound comfy though.

>>8726106
But I WANT it. Give it to me NOW.

>>8726117
you're a fat mediocre loser who will never amount to anything, get over it and stop taking up space on the catalogue with your delusions of grandeur

>>8726077
Its a job that doesn't really exist now, it has been destroyed by digital.

All you're going to be doing is copy editing which is just correcting grammar and formatting tables and so on (even this is on its way out though). Its little more than data entry and proof reading.

So I guess, being good at grammar, Quark and knowing how to use copy editing marks although the latter is probably on its way out too.

Even newspapers don't really bother with editing these days which is why they are increasingly filling with spelling mistakes (the Daily Mail though the director of the FBI was called "Comely" for an entire week), a lack of fact checking and general barbarism. There is an article in the Guardian today where somebody talks about "collateral" but really she means "collateral damage" and it completely changes the meaning of the piece.