质量是图书的生命。推进出版业由规模数量向优质高效的阶段性转移,核心是要拿出更多的精品书,在图书质量上上一个新台阶。实现这个任务,当然需要各个环节共同努力,但处于图书出版中心地位的编辑人员无疑起着至关重要的作用。增加编辑含量,就是当前图书出版现状向编辑人员提出的一个严峻课题。 编辑含量指的是蕴含在图书中的编辑劳动,既包括选题策划、组织作者等前期工作,也包括审读和加工书稿等后期工作,其中大量的是后期工作。一般来说,编辑含量在图书成品上是看不出来的,编辑劳动已溶化在作者的著作成果中。但图书差错增多,图书质量滑坡,编辑含量严重不足又不能不说是一个重要原因。这里所说的“编辑含量严重不足”是指编辑对书稿没有或者没有足够地进行必要的加工和整理,编辑应当履行的责任没有或者没有足够地履行,使图书出现本来完全可以避免的编辑质量上的差错,如常识性差错、逻辑性差错、文字性差错等等。 如果说编辑含量的严重不足从图书差错的增多可以反映出来的话,那么从发排的书稿上则可以更清楚地看出这一点。笔者曾从事过数年校对工作,对此体会颇深。近年来,编辑花在书稿加工整理上的功夫越来越少 Quality is the life of the book. Promote the publishing industry from the number of large-scale to high quality and efficient stage of the transfer, the core is to come up with more books of excellence in the quality of books to a new level. To achieve this task, of course, requires all aspects of joint efforts, but at the center of the publishing house editor undoubtedly plays a vital role. Increase the content of the editorial, is the current publication status of the editorial staff to a serious issue. Editing content refers to editorial work contained in the book, covering not only the preparatory work such as the selection of topics, the organization of the author and other preparatory work, but also the review and processing of manuscripts and other post-work, a large number of which are post-work. In general, editing content can not be seen in the book finished, editorial work has melted in the author’s work. However, an increase of errors in books, the decline in the quality of books, a serious shortage of editors can not be said is an important reason. What is said here is “a serious lack of editing” means that editors do not have or do not adequately process and organize the manuscripts, and the editors’ responsibilities should not be fulfilled enough or not so that the quality of the editorials that would have been completely avoidable Errors, such as common sense errors, logical errors, typographical errors, and so on. If the serious lack of editorial content from the book errors can be reflected in the increase, then the issue of the manuscript can be more clearly on this point. I have been engaged in proofreading work for several years, this experience quite deep. In recent years, the editors spent less and less effort on the processing of manuscripts