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Newguest Posted 13 years ago
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Edited
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Ken Wilber is the author of this book http://tinyurl.com/a2caebw but at the bottom it says Edited by Ken Wilber.
Does "edited" mean that he published this book himself or he was the only editor, he didn't hire anyone to edit this book for him?
Sometimes I get confused with "edited" and "published"
Ken Wilber is the author of this book http://tinyurl.com/a2caebw but at the bottom it says Edited by Ken Wilber.
Does "edited" mean that he published this book himself or he was the only editor, he didn't hire anyone to edit this book for him?
Sometimes I get confused with "edited" and "published"
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Hi Usually, the author writes the original text; then the editor corrects it and makes some amendments; and then the publisher takes responsibility for selling it as a book The same person can do more than one of those things, so it is possible that Ken Wilber wrote and edited the book Dave
- Hi Usually, the author writes the original text; then the editor corrects it and makes some amendments; and then the publisher takes responsibility for selling it as a book The same person can do more than one of those things, so it is possible that Ken Wilber wrote and edited the book Dave
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Hi
Usually, the author writes the original text; then the editor corrects it and makes some amendments; and then the publisher takes responsibility for selling it as a book
The same person can do more than one of those things, so it is possible that Ken Wilber wrote and edited the book
Dave
Usually, the author writes the original text; then the editor corrects it and makes some amendments; and then the publisher takes responsibility for selling it as a book
The same person can do more than one of those things, so it is possible that Ken Wilber wrote and edited the book
Dave
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This book is a collection of essays written by other people. Ken Wilber is the one who chose the essays and likely wrote introductory materials so he is the editor. I don't know if Amazon's listing of Ken Wilber as the author is in error or if he wrote one of the essays in the book so can be counted as one of its authors too.
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It's probably a very minor error. Curated collections like this one are usually listed and categorized by the curator's name rather than trying to list the contributors, so if you had to pick a single "author" you'd use the curator's name - it's just that they aren't really the author, per se.
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