Dear Susan and other interested parties, Apologies in advance for playing devil's advocate here, but proofreading is the responsibility of the author/editor unless a special agreement has been made for the publisher to do it. Typically the author/editor will pay for such service, either up front or through royalty deductions. So a couple of follow-up questions are in order to clarify what happened in your case. Note I'm assuming you were not the editor of the book since you wrote, "I contributed a chapter to a book." 1) were the grammatical errors yours originally, or did somebody at Lexington change what you wrote and thereby introduced the errors? If they were your errors, were you given a chance to to see proofs and make corrections to them? If yes, did you make corrections that were subsequently ignored by Lexington? If no, was this because Lexington didn't send proofs to the editors, or because the editors didn't send proofs to you? 2) were the formatting errors (e.g., the table of contents) brought to Lexington's attention during the proofing stage, or after the proofs had been finalized and the book was printed? I think understanding the details here will help others decide about how to judge Lexington's publishing practices. Cheers, -p.

________________________________ From: Susan Benesch <susan.benesch@gmail.com> Sent: Sunday, September 27, 2015 5:32 PM To: Kristin Dagmar Eckert Cc: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: Re: [Air-L] Experiences on publishing with Lexington

Hi Stine, (replying all since the info may be useful to others) I would avoid Lexington at all costs, I'm afraid. I contributed a chapter to a book that they published - with flagrant errors, not only of grammar but even of formatting e.g. large gaps in the Table of Contents. We brought this to the attention of Lexington, but they didn't seem fazed.

Best wishes, Susan.

On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 3:11 PM, Kristin Dagmar Eckert < stine.eckert@wayne.edu<mailto:stine.eckert@wayne.edu>> wrote: Hi All

I am searching for scholars who have had publishing experiences with Lexington (subsidiary of Rowman & LIttlefield). I am interested in their publishing process for monographs. Please e-mail me off list ( stine.eckert@wayne.edu<mailto:stine.eckert@wayne.edu>) if you are willing to share your insights.

Thank you!

Take care,

Stine

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Wayne State University

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