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Originally Posted by HarryT
I have an even more shameful confession. When I was a textbook author (about 15 years ago now) I wrote for (hangs his head in shame) MONEY. Yes, it's true. A publisher PAID me to write physics textbooks. It was a job. I didn't do it for love. I did it for the money. Shocking, huh?
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Why do you think it is shocking? I edit nonfiction books because I can earn more editing them than I can editing fiction. And publishers (and sometimes authors) pay me to do the editing; it doesn't get done for free. Few people have the luxury of both doing a job because they love it and earning a sufficiently high income doing what they love. Most of us work at what we call jobs, not love affairs
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