Re: Magazines and books

**"* C* <y*@ispnet.ca>**

--oops, in the last sentence I meant to say typesetting machines (not 
magazines)

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Yvonne Cunnington" <ycunnington@ispnet.ca>
To: "Garden Writers -- GWL -- The Garden Writers Forum" 
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Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2008 9:04 AM
Subject: Re: [GWL] Magazines and books


> Lois J. de Vries wrote: How long did it take to move from 30-cents per 
> word
> to $1 per word? If you are getting $1/word from the majors, would you 
> still
> write for a smaller pub that couldn't afford that much, if you liked the
> magazine?
> _________________________________________________________
>
> As long as I've been writing and editing for magazines - since the
> mid-1980s - the fee has been $1/word. Interesting that there hasn't been 
> an
> increase in almost 25 years, isn't it?
>
> However, computers and the internet make the process of writing an article 
> a
> heck of a lot easier than in the old days when as a magazine editors we
> literally cut and pasted the stuff that we were writing and editing, 
> before
> we sent it the magazine's typists who would then retype everything into 
> the
> typesetting magazines.
>
> Yvonne Cunnington
> www.flower-gardening-made-easy.com
> http://countrygardener.blogspot.com
>
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