I think this may be true for fiction (. . .writen often create their work on their own. . .not anyone. . .can add/modify a story), but I think it's a great idea for non-fiction, such as the textbook and research paper examples that the OP cited. Other examples include user or technical manuals, requirements documentation. . .The team members are often more akin to contributors (code or otherwise) than to editors. Individual but interlinked units have to come together to form a whole.
Absolutely. My wife's job as a professional editor involved editing hundred-page documents, often with more than one author. A tool which made version control simple, yet writing easy, would be a godsend.
The down side is, many such organizations (e.g., military) have standardized on Word, which is terrible for collaborative review, editing, and version control of long documents. (Of any documents?) She would have been extremely happy had her employer allowed them to use LaTeX or similar.
> Absolutely. My wife's job as a professional editor involved editing hundred-page documents, often with more than one author. A tool which made version control simple, yet writing easy, would be a godsend.
I hope you signed up - I want to that editing process easier!
