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The Author's Desk Book; Being a Reference Volume Upon Questions of the Relations of the Author to the Publisher, Copyright, the Relation of the Contributor to the Magazine, Mechanics of the Book, Arrangement of the Book, Making of the Index, Etc

The Author's Desk Book; Being a Reference Volume Upon Questions of the Relations of the Author to the Publisher, Copyright, the Relation of the Contributor to the Magazine, Mechanics of the Book, Arrangement of the Book, Making of the Index, Etc


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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: RELATIONS OF THE SHORT-STORY WRITER TO THE MAGAZINES I HE contributor to the magazines stands in a relation entirely different from that of the novelist to his publisher. In this case, the author has no joint interest with the publisher, being but one of many contributors to the magazine as a whole. In an article in their Bulletin, the Authors' League refers to these dealings as follows: In his relations with the magazine publisher, the short-story writer may be considered either as an independent merchant, peddling his wares, or as an employee, ?. on the same plane with the ink-dealer and the paper-house, say, or on the same plane with the sub-editor and the cashier. The magazine publisher, for selfish reasons, generally prefers to consider him as a merchant. Your committee, for reasons equally selfish but perhaps better founded, considers him rather in the light of an employee. First, and most importantly, the ink-dealer and the paper-house have capital; the magazine writer brings nothing to his business but his brain and his two hands. In the second place, a great deal of the writing for our periodicals is done by men and women employed on salary, and economically in the same category as the cashier or the sub-editor. The man or woman who writes 'on the outside, ' either on speculation or on order, it seems to us, is no less a temporary employee of the. magazine. This consideration enters into the first grievancewhich has been urged by many of our members against certain of our magazines, ? the deferring of payments after the acceptance of the article or story. As every one knows, the custom of our leading periodicals varies greatly in this regard. Some pay upon acceptance, not nominally but really. Certain others pay within the month. Still others pay just about wh..


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217885799
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 38
  • Spine Width: 2 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217885799
  • Publisher Date: 09 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 86 gr


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