How much do authors get paid?

r.boys@genie.geis.com
Fri, 30 Jun 95 05:31:00 UTC

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The Editor for the Canadian Encyclopaedia came and gave a talk to my
electronic publishing class at university.

They are making the new encyclopaedia on a CD-ROM - no more paper books. It
will have text, music, audio and movies. Included will be an American
encyclopaedia, dictionary, thesausrus and powerful searching tools.
It will sell for $CDN 99 or about $US 75. I saw the beta version.

I asked him how much he was paying contributors and he said 25 cents a word!
For my M68k FAQ, I would get about $2,500! WOW!

Just thought you would like to know that contributors get a bit more than a
free CD-ROM. :-)

Robert Boys
Guelph, Ontario, Canada

Graduate Student - University of Toronto
Master of Information Science (MIS) boys@fis.utoronto.ca

FAQ Maintainer - comp.sys.m68k & comp.arch.bus.vmebus (USENET)
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