ABSTRACT
What happens once the edition is ready for the public? If the editors expect to publish their edition in print, then the answer is quite simple, or allegedly so: they will send their edition to the publisher, then there are a few operations that require a certain interaction between the publishing house and the editors, such as responding to queries, revising the text after copy-editing and peer reviewing and proofreading, and then the edition gets published. A convenient division of labour allows for the editor to concentrate on the establishment of the text and the provision of the paratextual material, while all the technical work is undertaken by the publisher, more often than not in conjunction with a printer. Such a workflow is described by Bree and McLaverty (2009) as being valid and useful:
The traditional publisher-scholar partnership for specialist academic work in print form, where scholars provide the material, the scholar and the publisher discuss how it can be published, and the publisher publishes it, seemed to us to remain both valid and useful in practical terms. (pp. 128–9).
