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Originally Posted by HarryT
I guess it depends what your idea of a "ridiculous fee" is. Personally I don't consider, say, $50/hr to be an unreasonable fee for a skilled task such as proofreading. If it takes 10h to proof-read an average novel, $500 doesn't seem a great deal of money to spend if you're serious about writing as a career. There are very few careers in which you don't have to invest money in training yourself.
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Originally Posted by Maggie Leung
Lol. Maybe someone in a developing country would be willing to edit for that kind of "pay."
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I have no idea what a professional copy editor makes, but I was referring to someone copy editing as a hobby. Using my model, a 400 page manuscript would cost $100-200 to be edited. If it takes ten hours, that's $10-20 an hour. Not to shabby for a hobby. I would do it for that, but I may be way off on the time involved.