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Originally Posted by rhadin
Interesting that you say this. I have been paid much more than $10,000 for a single copyediting assignment many times over my career. Of course, it does depend on what you are editing, how long the project is, and how long it takes to do the work.
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For Copy Editing? Not for structural editing? That would a a very large fee for a copy edit, though not uncommon for a major structural edit. Some structural edits can take weeks - even months in some cases. I had one in 2110 that took eighteen weeks, it was a well known, well established writer who was in the very early stages of senility. We knew that the name would sell, there was a an established reader-base, so it was worth the time and cost. Most copy edits are straight forward and relatively swift.
If you can get in excess of ten thousand for a copy edit, I think that I want live where you live. What's the climate like there?
