"editorial" in this context

[user_user]

Jamie Oliver apologises after his children’s book is criticised for ‘stereotyping’ First Nations Australians

Exclusive: Publisher takes responsibility for the failure to consult Indigenous groups, who say the fantasy novel trivialises complex and painful histories

www.theguardian.com

“First Nations peoples need to be involved at every stage of the process from acquisitions to editorial, to sales and marketing. Only then will our stories be told with the complete respect they deserve,” she said in a statement.

Question: "Editorial" here seems to mean "editing". But here it's been used as a noun, and as noun it can only mean "an article in a newspaper that expresses an opinion." Only as adjective it has a meaning related to editing. What's going on here?

 

[Tarheel]

Regardless of what it's supposed to be, I'd say it's a noun in that sentence. Editorial - the editing process. Note that everything else in that list is a noun.

 

[user_user]

Regardless of what it's supposed to be, I'd say it's a noun in that sentence. Editorial - the editing process. Note that everything else in that list is a noun.

I know it's used as noun. But like I said, "editorial" in its noun sense doesn't have a meaning related to "editing". It can only mean an article in a newspaper.

 

[SoothingDave]

First of all, people use words without strictly adhering to dictionary definitions. So it can't "only" mean an article in a newspaper. The writer here obviously did not mean that.

Second, I think it's an adjective. It's talking about stages. The editorial stage.

 

[Skrej]

It's referring to the different stages of publishing a book, although they could also be different departments within the company as well. The editorial stage would be when the editing occurs.

It's used as an adjective, modifying 'stage'.

Read it as "First Nations peoples need to be involved at every stage of the process from acquisitions (stage) to editorial (stage).

 

[Tarheel]

The First Nations peoples need to be involved in every stage of the process -- from the acquisitions stage to the editorial stage to the sales stage to the marketing stage.

It says the same thing no matter what part of speech you want to call it.