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Originally Posted by HarryT
$50 for an entire book? That seems way, way too low to me, I'm afraid. $50 per hour may be reasonable (although even that's on the low side), but how many hours would it take to do even a basic check of a typical novel? I'd say it would be several hours at a minimum.
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I'm thinking ~1-3 hours for a novel; $25-50/hourly rate. BASIC spellcheck/grammarfix. Not actually reading the book. Run spellcheck program (amazing how many manuscripts don't even bother with that); scroll through looking for punctuation & grammar that makes the editor wince, and fix it.
If that seems unreasonably quick, maybe I could find a job in the publishing industry somewhere, 'cos that's about my skim-and-correct rate, and I don't think of myself as having extreme editing skills. (Or at least, not when I'm working that fast. I do great line-by-line editing but that takes a lot longer, and I don't expect to get paid for it; jobs involving that much detail work are really hard to find.)
I'd think real editing for novels would run at $20-$50/hour, a bit higher for "normal" nonfiction, and much higher for technical nonfic.