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 I don't know how authors are being treated, but at least those Perhaps you mean they don't pay their tech editors very much? I have done tech editing for several publishers and I never knew what the authors were being paid. A tech editor will (quite sensibly, given the relative time investments) be paid only a fairly small fraction of what the author gets, in a typical scenario. >Either I'm overpaid, In a UK university that seems improbable. :) or the only way someone could write a
Another way of expressing that is that you need to plan out a business plan and cash flow (even if it is on the back of an envelope). If someone is seriously thinking about writing to earn a proportion of their income a 12 month (or more) transition period is needed with careful time and cash flow planning. And a bit of luck, like not choosing to start writing in Autumn/Fall 2001. :) Andrew Watt 
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