For the requirements of book editors, just check the recruitment notices of major recruitment platforms. As I mentioned at that time, some thresholds are "hard", and they must be graduated from Chinese Department or a certain major, bachelor degree or above, CET-6, relevant experience and so on. Some are "soft", not limited to graduation from a certain major, and do not require industry experience (this usually has a written test).
I read some related books before applying, which are listed here for the reference of friends who care about this industry.
1, the old catalogue was published.
It was written by Chen Yingqing, a teacher in Taiwan Province Province. It is very grounded. From how to choose the title and cover, how to reduce typos in the content, how to make the layout more beautiful, to the choice of poster photos, which stall to choose for book price, the determination of marketing plan and so on. There are also prospects for the industry in the book, because these contents were written more than ten years ago, and the forecast for the development of the industry may be different from today's status quo, but it is still worth learning.
2. Practical Manual for Book Editing and Proofreading
As the name implies, I know some specifications, precautions, error-prone items and so on.
3. Grammatical rhetoric speech
This manuscript is relatively old. The text part is based on the text of China Youth Publishing House (1979), and the exercise part is based on the single book Grammar and Rhetoric Practice published by China Youth Publishing House (1953). The author is Zhu, both of whom are very skilled. Some sentences are "old", so just pay attention when reading them.
4. People's Republic of China (PRC) Contract Law
To be a book editor, you need to sign contracts with authors, translators and others, so I specially bought this contract law to find out. However, in actual work, contracts are standard templates provided by companies or colleagues in charge of legal affairs, which is basically unnecessary.
5. Dear Genius
After I determined the editing direction of children's books, I specially bought Dear Genius to read. Because this book contains the correspondence between Ursula, the editor of children's books, and many children's book authors. Ursula is the head of children's books department of Harper's Publishing House, and has edited classic children's books such as Little Mouse, Charlotte's Web, Love Tree, Lost Corner, Escape Rabbit, Arroyo's crayons, and Wild Animal Places.
In these letters, we can see her requirements for the author, suggestions for revision, and the process of repeated communication and consultation. When the author is depressed, she should encourage him; When the author writes a bestseller, she will remind her in Gone with the Wind to encourage a breakthrough. When the author's thoughts are exhausted, she will try to guide ... In short, after reading this book, we can vividly understand the specific duties of an editor.
I also bought a book about book marketing, the name of which I forgot. I'll add it when I remember.
In addition, Weibo or his blog, who pays attention to the editor, can also learn some information in the industry. These all need to be collected and sorted out by everyone. Which publishing house or style of books do you like? You can look through the copyright page, find the editor's name, and search if he has Weibo.
In fact, this is not limited to the book industry. If you want to cross the line and collect relevant information in new fields, you can get it by looking for social media of people in the industry. After paying attention to it for a period of time, you will often have a certain understanding of this industry.
Finally, I would like to remind you that the wages in the book industry are generally not high. If you want to enter this industry, you'd better think twice, otherwise you may feel that you have paid a lot, but the result is not satisfactory. However, as far as the books I mentioned are concerned, I can still learn a lot after reading them, which is quite worthwhile.