[Air-L] Index it yourself

[Ronald E. Rice]

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 at comm.ucsb.edu; http://www.comm.ucsb.edu/people/ronald-e-rice


Quoting Casey O'Donnell <codonnell at 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 at 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
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