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Originally Posted by Hitch
Y'know, Kevin8or: honestly, there aren't. I know everyone thinks that there are affordable college grads up for grabs on every corner--but not at any type of piece-rate that is remotely affordable. I'm not being pissy about this, but as someone who does hiring moderately often, and just went through a spate of bodies for an admin ass't., it ain't as easy and affordable as it sounds. Most of the grads I interviewed wanted more money per hour (essentially) than my production crew leaders get; the latter of which are line, so earning me money, not staff, which don't. Nor will I make you roll your eyes by regaling you with my not one, not two, but myriad debacles with hiring new proofers and epub-editors, vis-a-vis your earlier comments about "outsourc[ing] the file to a low-wage proof-reader or two" and sending it back to "someone" in-house who makes the changes. That person in-house? Has to be paid. There's no magic wand that makes those changes. We find we can make about 30, maybe 45 edits to an epub in an hour, tops. We get some epubs with over 200 copyedits. I have to pay "someone" for those hours. That ain't free, and as I already said, the "low-wage proof-reader" is fantasy right up there with the belief that when you stealth-fart, no one smells anything, and no one knows it's you.
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So how much would a low-wage ePub editor make doing this?