Copy editing
Making the text correct and consistent — grammar, punctuation, usage and a single house style.
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Advance / royalty
An advance is money paid to an author up front against future earnings; a royalty is the author's share of each sale.
ARC / galley
An Advance Reader Copy (or galley) is an early, near-final version sent to reviewers and booksellers before launch.
Blurb
The short selling copy on the back cover and in store listings. Its only job is to make a browser open the book.
COBISS
The shared bibliographic system of Serbia and the wider region, used by libraries and the national library to catalogue titles.
Developmental editing
The big-picture edit — structure, pacing, plot or argument — done before the sentences are polished.
Edition vs impression
An edition is a version with significant changes; an impression (or print run) is a batch printed from the same setting.