Maris Kreizman argues for adding full credit pages to books acknowledging everyone who worked on them. “How lovely it is to be seen and appreciated.”
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Was watching a documentary on Tubi (I think) and literally could not figure out how to watch the credits. Auto-starting of some other program covered 80% of the screen....
There's a movement toward this idea in scholarly publishing, with a whole standard, even, for acknowledging labor in metadata (CRediT, the Contributor Roles Taxonomy, https://credit.niso.org/). A small but growing subset academics are disillusioned with what's normalized as "vocational service" but increasingly feels like "unpaid labor."
Yes, and. Many freelance copyeditors are overruled by authors or publishers in such a way that they do not want their name associated with the published book.
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