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Old 12-19-2010, 08:35 AM   #14
Maggie Leung
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I agree, Andrew. And it's not just copy editors. Not everyone can afford, say, $500 for a good cover design.

However, I can see various professions which hitherto have been salaried perhaps going in for a share of the royalties from indie authors. Like cover artists, translators, sound book (or whatever it's called) readers, copy editors...

I once had a vision of a site which combined all these talents, where the cover artists and sound book readers got, say, five per cent, translators maybe twenty or thirty, and so on.
Wow, a whole 5 percent? Not sure which Third World country they could afford to live in on that, lol. I don't knock indie books for those who enjoy them, but let's not kid ourselves that we're talking about a "professional" livelihood for copy editors stemming from the hope of 5 percent of sales and such.
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