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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@c...> To: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@i...> Cc: <xml-dev@l...> Sent: Monday, March 25, 2002 9:40 PM Subject: Re: 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. > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > The xml-dev list is sponsored by XML.org <http://www.xml.org>, an > initiative of OASIS <http://www.oasis-open.org> > > The list archives are at http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ > > To subscribe or unsubscribe from this list use the subscription > manager: <http://lists.xml.org/ob/adm.pl> >
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