Re: 'faq-maintainersbook'

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Alex Lopez-Ortiz (alopez-o@barrow.uwaterloo.ca)
Thu, 18 May 1995 20:25:05 -0400

>While would be a lot of contributors to this book, some one person, or a
>small group of people are going to have to serve as editors. They are
>going to have a lot of work to do. I think they will need to be paid.
>
>The model I would suggest is that used by multi-authored text books (where
>there are 1-3 editors plus many chapter authors). In these books, the editors
>get 40-60% of the profits and the rest are distributed among the many chapter
>authors, who get next to nothing.
>
>So I would suggest:
>1-The group that actually assembles, proofs, deals with the publisher,etc get
>paid for their time by taking a large (50% or so) piece of any profits
>2-The remainder be divided up among the other contributors with everyone
>having the option of contributing their piece of the action (which would
>individually be tiney) to rtfm.

I agree. Let's say 40-50% to the editors, the tiny rest divi'ed up among the
individual authors...

Alex

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Alex Lopez-Ortiz                             alopez-o@neumann.UWaterloo.ca
http://daisy.uwaterloo.ca/~alopez-o                     FAX (519)-885-1208
Department of Computer Science                      University of Waterloo
Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3G1                                           Canada

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