How the sixth child of a semi-literate family revolutionized USP publishing

On the committee for the doctoral thesis “Manual de Editoração da USP” were Paulo Franchetti, from Unicamp (University of Campinas), and Wander Melo Miranda, from UFMG (Federal University of Minas Gerais). “As soon as I read the material, before the defense, I immediately thought about publishing it. It was the book that was missing for the employees of the Unicamp publishing house, which I ran — and I imagined that it would be missing from every publishing house that valued editorial quality”, says Franchetti, 63.