RE: [Leica] fees for authors

[Jeremy Kime <jeremy.kime@bbc.co.uk>]

Erwin,
I admire, as I'm sure does everyone else who reads this, your stance.
However, I can easily believe that there are, sadly, all too many
'journalists' out there willing to write as much 'packing' as possible in as
short a time as possible to generate as much income as possible. I
 am confident however (as has been demonstrated here on the LUG in the last
few days) that the vast majority of readers soon establish which writers
achieve creedence and which do not.

Jem

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Erwin Puts [SMTP:imxputs@knoware.nl]
> Sent:	Saturday, July 24, 1999 10:20 AM
> To:	leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject:	[Leica] fees for authors
> 
> Christer  noted partly, as a semi-citation:
> >HE: Well, what do you expect, the magazines pay him DM 200 (that a little
> >more than $ 100) for each page, so he can not afford to do much testing
> >himself and he has to inflate the text volume in order to make a little
> bit
> >of money.
> 
> This is a remarkable train of thought. I am writing for five or six 
> magazines and get paid nothing or the same fee per page.  Still I 
> strive to deliver high quality work, based on extensive time 
> consuming testing.  It is no excuse for shoddy work to blame the low 
> pay. If the fee is too low, do not accept the offer. Every 
> writer/journalist should have its own standards of professionalism, 
> and keep to them disregarding what you get paid. If you agree with 
> the fee, then you have only one option: deliver to the best you can. 
> If you won't deliver for the money, find yourself a better paid job.
> 
> 
> Erwin