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From: bbaker@cbmvax.commodore.com (Bob Baker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: But how much?  Re: Amiga Plus does not pay its authors!!!!!
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Date: 2 Jan 91 21:06:42 GMT
References: <0762.AA0762@we> <37420@cup.portal.com> <1991Jan1.022405.27041@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> <37497@cup.portal.com>
Reply-To: bbaker@cbmvax.commodore.com (Bob Baker)
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In article <37497@cup.portal.com> DEVA@cup.portal.com (David Michael Alves) writes:
> > Kent, the man from xanth writes:
> 
> > For the author wannabes in the crowd, can you give a hint as to what the
> > major Amiga rags are paying for what amount of text?
> 
> Well, Jumpdisk advertises that they pay from $25 to $200 for an article.
> Others may pay about the same, or more, or less.  (helpful huh. :-)
> 

Most of the publications pay based on the number of final published pages,
or possibly even word count (INFO for example). Payment is generally when
the article is actually published, not on acceptance like in the 'olden'
days. If you ever decide to write, watch out for things like "binders".
Byte magazine in the early days used to pay a $20-25 binder that would
reserve an article for their magazine, but you wouldn't be paid until
the article was actually published.... but there was no guarantee that
the article ever would be used!

In any event, actuall payment scales will vary with the size of the
magazine, typically in the $25 to $100 per page range from what I
remember.

    Robert Baker
> 
> David Alves
> Devasoft / Tel (408)927-9645
> DEVA@cup.portal.com