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Originally Posted by CommonReader
I wonder if people here would be happy to see their own salaries cut dramatically because of "customer demands"? It is always nice to demand that other people should cut back their income.
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All I can tell you is that I am currently being paid by my customers what they paid me in 1995 because the value of editing to publishers has declined with industry consolidation. An author who hired me to edit his or her novel would pay me what I charged in 1995 -- and yet they still complain that the rate is too high and they can't afford it.
And although it isn't piracy, the Internet has forced changes in the editing profession by making editing a global commodity and by "dumbing down" the general population so that readers increasingly either do not recognize or do not care whether the correct word is
their or
there.