Re: Slugs

[everett <everett@CHS.ORG>]

Well, I spent part of the morning on the phone and present herewith a sample
of what awaits those more curious and industrious than I.

At McGraw-Hill, it's called a "key line."

At MacMillan, it's called a "printer's code."

At Penguin, it's called a "print line."

At Doubleday, it's called a "print history line."

Farrar, Straus & Giroux doesn't use them.

Those from the publishers' own mouths.

Without going on too much, I shall just remark that it seems to me by John's
logic of intellectual responsibility, his definition fits only the author.
Just as the printer or binder are the publisher's medium, is not the
publisher, by that logic, just the author's medium, in turn?
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