Files
skillfactor-pipeline/skills/book-editor/SKILL.md
skillfactor-pipeline af05383bb1 chore: v1 baseline - full 3,039-package catalog with AI-skill enrichment and O*NET backfill
Snapshot before the quality program (relevance gates, tiered mapping,
QA linter). v1 is the immutable before/after reference; evidence crawl
was at ~175/3039 occupations when tagged.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01PDKeXvpT6tENSvyQGLV1Uq
2026-07-09 05:32:49 +02:00

2.0 KiB

name, description
name description
book-editor Occupational skill for the role 'book editor' (also: editorial director of publications, acquisitions editor, commissioning editor, book editor and consultant, manuscripts editorial director, senior book editor). Use when the user asks for typical book editor work such as: typical book editor responsibilities

Book Editor

Book editors find manuscripts that can be published. They review texts from writers to evaluate the commercial potential or they ask writers to take on projects that the publishing company wishes to publish. Book editors maintain good relationships with writers.

Core workflow

How to use this skill

Key competences (essential)

  • assess financial viability
  • attend book fairs
  • consult information sources
  • copyright legislation
  • develop professional network
  • establish collaborative relations
  • implement marketing strategies
  • literature
  • manage budgets
  • network within the writing industry
  • provide support to authors
  • publishing market
  • read manuscripts
  • select manuscripts
  • suggest revision of manuscripts

Hot technologies

  • Adobe Acrobat
  • Adobe Creative Cloud software
  • Adobe Illustrator
  • Adobe InDesign
  • Adobe Photoshop
  • Facebook
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Microsoft Office software
  • Microsoft PowerPoint
  • Microsoft Word

Sources: ESCO v1.2.1 (http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/4bef1707-a251-427e-9d8b-96595ec38d45), ONET 30.3 (27-3043.05, manual nearest match). See manifest.json for licensing/attribution.*