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In article <l9kqsnINN7kb@utkcs2.cs.utk.edu> eijkhout@cupid.cs.utk.edu (Victor Eijkhout) writes:
!In article <1992Aug24.211117.1@hmcvax.claremont.edu!, dhosek@hmcvax.claremont.edu writes:

!Do you think authors have anything to say about the choice of paper?

Yes, I have always discussed the paper among other things
with the publishers when discussing the production of my books.

!I think I was lucky that they let me veto the first cover design.

The solution to this is to basically do your own cover design and
send it in early on. In this way the `art' department will generally
respond with only minor variations. So with a little compromise
you generally get what you want.

!(But the letter that came with the second design told me between the
!lines that 'we will take this one whether you like it or not'.)

Oh, you should never have given up but insisted that you didn't like
it. Unless they were really on deadline you probably would have
gotten another shot at it. Publishers like to keep authors happy.
After all you MIGHT write another book.

!The closer you get to production of the book, the less an author can do
!about it.

This is true. So, you do everything early on. The publishing
industry is really geared to crisis management. So, they do
everything at the last minute and expect you to respond immediately.
(Well actually there are some that behave more rationally).

!If I would have had any say in the choice of paper I would have
!opted for parchment, in real leather binding :-)

And it would have looked terrible :-} (the curly for us old people
                                        with wrinkles.)

Dave Rogers