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I have been treated very well by Wrox. I was half way through a book and
nothing changed.
Already working on a new one.
Can't say anything about other publishers, but have no complaint over them.
> very much. Either I'm overpaid, or the only way someone could write a
> book is if she were independently wealthy or hopelessly unemployed.
Or working too many hours :)
cheers,
Steven
http://www22.brinkster.com/deltabis/steven/
----- Original Message -----
From: "K. Ari Krupnikov" <ari@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
To: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@ingr.com>
Cc: <xml-dev@lists.xml.org>
Sent: Monday, March 25, 2002 9:40 PM
Subject: Re: [xml-dev] Technical Book Slump
> > Yes. That is what I am told as well by other authors. In some cases,
the
> > managing editors suspended support work (eg, technical editing) without
> > notification in the middle of a project. Others paid up on work
completed
> > to date and apologized. How are authors being treated?
>
> I don't know how authors are being treated, but at least those
> publishers for whom I've done technical editing don't pay their authors
> very much. Either I'm overpaid, or the only way someone could write a
> book is if she were independently wealthy or hopelessly unemployed.
>
> Ari.
>
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