- Producing a definitive edition of a classic author's works: a scholarly editor.

- Organizing and managing contributions to a multi-author book: symposium editor or volume editor.

- Finding marketable ideas and presenting them to appropriate authors: a sponsoring editor.

- Obtaining copy or recruiting authors, such as the acquisitions editor or commissioning editor for a publishing house.

- Working with technical, scientific, medical or other complex issues: a technical editor

- Improving an author's writing so that they indeed say what they want to say, in an effective manner: a substantive editor.

- Correcting spelling, grammar, and matters of house style: a copyeditor. At UK newspapers, the term is "sub-editor."

- Choosing the layout of the publication and communicating with the printer: a production editor. This and similar jobs are also called "layout editor," "design editor," "news designer," or "makeup editor."

- Organizing anthologies and other compilations.

Editors of scholarly books and journals are of three types, each with particular responsibilities: the acquisitions editor (or commissioning editor in the UK), who contracts with the author to produce the copy, the project editor or production editor, who sees the copy through its stages from manuscript through bound book and usually assumes most of the budget and schedule responsibilities, and the copyeditor or manuscript editor, who performs the tasks of readying the copy for conversion into printed form.

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Although there are a myriad of "hands-on" functions in multiple media production, it all begins at the conceptualization stage. At this embryonic point, the project can be structured and guided into a direction that will maximize ROI and deliver the message with the greatest possible impact. Consulting is a key element in creating the basic concept and building the infrastructure that will become the project.

Consulting is a personal, one-on-one process and although it carries a rather steep hourly price, is invaluable in the creation of any project. The experts at Expedimedia have decades of consulting experience and can assist you in any aspect of your project's pre-production. Many media producers have run into significant delays and budget overruns that could have been easily avoided through a few hours of expert consulting prior to the initiation of the project.

EDITING

Editing is the process of preparing language, images, or sound for presentation through correction, condensation, organization, and other modifications. There are various levels of editorial positions in publishing, all of which are represented by professional editors at Expedimedia: