A Mini Review of a "Book of Horrors"...is this thing for real???

[Lee]

...just because it is in print does not make it true

So very true. The emergence of the PC as a tool for inexpensive book pre-press production in the last decade has been both a boon and a curse. Even I have done a project on the same equipment used to generate much of this website. Many very worthwhile projects have been made possible in the last decade by these new processes (with incredibly more affordable color as well). However, with a much smaller financial commitment and risk being made by the publisher, there is less diligence by publishers in sorting out the chaff.

All in all, though, this new technology has benefitted us greatly, and even in the old days with higher barriers to entry in publishing, horrible trash did occasionally get past peer review and or publisher's cautions.