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<blockquote data-quote="Thomas Shey" data-source="post: 8304351" data-attributes="member: 7026617">My initial response to this was overly snarky, so I'll try again.I've been a professional editor dealing with small scale publication for many years until a few years back.&nbsp; It is exceedingly rare to find people competent in writing, editing, layout and printing management in the same person.&nbsp; In fact, I don't think I ever hit one.Even self-published authors very, very rarely try to do that all by their lonesome, and those that do are virtually always publishing fiction, which is much less difficult to edit than most forms of RPG book (which are closest to cookbooks in difficulty editing properly, and many editors won't even take on a cookbook at their regular rate.So my answer to your post is that I think you are seriously overestimating how many small business owners are actually trying to wear as many hats as we're talking about here, in as detailed and time consuming a way.&nbsp; If you are talking about the ones that do so and actually do a competent job of it all by themselves, the number is vanishingly small.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Thomas Shey, post: 8304351, member: 7026617"] My initial response to this was overly snarky, so I'll try again. I've been a professional editor dealing with small scale publication for many years until a few years back. It is exceedingly rare to find people competent in writing, editing, layout and printing management in the same person. In fact, I don't think I ever hit one. Even self-published authors very, very rarely try to do that all by their lonesome, and those that do are virtually always publishing fiction, which is much less difficult to edit than most forms of RPG book (which are closest to cookbooks in difficulty editing properly, and many editors won't even take on a cookbook at their regular rate. So my answer to your post is that I think you are seriously overestimating how many small business owners are actually trying to wear as many hats as we're talking about here, in as detailed and time consuming a way. If you are talking about the ones that do so and actually do a competent job of it all by themselves, the number is vanishingly small. [/QUOTE]

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