Index it yourself
I have found that my best indexer is me. I hired a pro for our first book, Social Structures, and she did such a bad job, that I did it over again myself. I have done my/our 3 subsequent books myself. Including Networked (check it yourself) I found it takes a day. A big screen helps (I have 27"). I go thru the book and identify indexicable items. And keep many pages up on the same big screen. (I think I achieved 6 or 8 with Networked. And because I know the book and the concepts, it works. Barry Wellman _______________________________________________________________________ FRSC INSNA Founder University of Toronto http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman twitter: @barrywellman NETWORKED:The New Social Operating System. Lee Rainie & Barry Wellman MIT Press http://amzn.to/zXZg39 Print $14 Kindle $9 _______________________________________________________________________
Whoever MIT Press hired to do my book was epic. It was pretty clear they either enjoyed to book or were just awesome to begin with. My favorite example is that there is a 1.5 page sub-index under the term "Actor-Network Theory" to where I'm drawing those connections throughout the text... Casey On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 6:07 PM, Barry Wellman <wellman@chass.utoronto.ca> wrote:
I have found that my best indexer is me.
I hired a pro for our first book, Social Structures, and she did such a bad job, that I did it over again myself.
-- Casey O'Donnell, Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of Media and Information Games for Entertainment and Learning Lab (GEL) Michigan State University Author of Developer's Dilemma <http://www.amazon.com/Developers-Dilemma-Videogame-Creators-Technology/dp/0262028190> http://www.caseyodonnell.org
I would like to reinforce the epicness of MIT indexers (and probably even more their copyeditors). I've indexed some books myself, had one indexed by a trained librarian, and most by publisher indexers. It does cost you to have them do it (comes our of your "royalties"), but in the case of MIT, it is absolutely worth it. Same awesomness of their copyeditors. -- Ronald E. Rice Arthur N. Rupe Professor in the Social Effects of Mass Communication International Communication Association President 2006-2007 Dept. of Communication, 4005 Social Sciences & Media Studies Bldg (SSMS) University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-4020 Ph: 805-893-8696; Fax: 805-893-7102 rrice@comm.ucsb.edu; http://www.comm.ucsb.edu/people/ronald-e-rice Quoting Casey O'Donnell <codonnell@alum.rpi.edu>:
Whoever MIT Press hired to do my book was epic. It was pretty clear they either enjoyed to book or were just awesome to begin with. My favorite example is that there is a 1.5 page sub-index under the term "Actor-Network Theory" to where I'm drawing those connections throughout the text...
Casey
On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 6:07 PM, Barry Wellman <wellman@chass.utoronto.ca> wrote:
I have found that my best indexer is me.
I hired a pro for our first book, Social Structures, and she did such a bad job, that I did it over again myself.
-- Casey O'Donnell, Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of Media and Information Games for Entertainment and Learning Lab (GEL) Michigan State University
Author of Developer's Dilemma <http://www.amazon.com/Developers-Dilemma-Videogame-Creators-Technology/dp/0262028190>
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