Hemingway and Fitzgerald had a legendary editor in Maxwell Perkins, who even got his own biography. But the days when publishing houses had editors who edited are long gone, Marjorie Braman writes in Publishers Weekly: "A publisher once said to me, almost in passing, 'We don’t pay you to edit.' The real message was: 'Editing is not crucial. If you’re an editor, what matters is acquiring.'" Braman now works as a freelance editor and says that model may be the future.
