27 June 2009

Squeaking reaches deafening proportions

Courtesy of Jon Azpiri, the link is to a blog with a piece on earning US$0.15 per word, except that apparently not all words count, regardless of their grammatical importance. Read it, as they say, and weep.

Several people on the Mexican trip from which I've just returned were writing for absolutely nothing except the subsidised travel itself. One, very courteously, apologised for contributing in this way to the general undermining of rates, although there's little new in this. But I was the only person travelling solely in the expectation of receiving a fee for material to be published, and that's a first.

Those dreaming of making a living from all this should note that US$0.15 per word is starting to look generous.
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