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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AmerginLiath" data-source="post: 6288581" data-attributes="member: 777">As someone working in publishing (college textbooks art & composition, not gaming, but same general process), my thoughts on the 97% number is that the proofs* have come back and they're going over everything and doing final corrections and adjustments on numbers and indexing, along with insertion of final process art in lieu or original FPO boxes. Meanwhile, cover art and paste-in material is being finalized separately and everything is being triple-checked against the marketing material before it goes to the printer. Despite what I keep reading here that folks seem to think, the actual process of printing and binding a run of a book is QUICK nowadays -- one would be surprised how late in the process the print run date actually is!(*and maybe even test runs -- there could have been some bound versions with deliberately incomplete cover art in WotC's hands at PAX East, for example, the way that vendors often have at trade shows)97% done doesn't mean that that they've left out whole classes or mechanics. It means that the last of the publishing sausage needs to be made to get the books to look pretty in your hands come GenCon or so. This doesn't mean that Mearls and the others are off the hook now -- the last month or two of production on a book are a constant loop of the production team (where I am in my work, for example) emailing back and forth to authors and editors a dozen times by day to check wording, pagination, placement, or editing questions. It's still small potatoes to the larger 97% of writing, illustrating, and designing, however.</blockquote>

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