12-11-2012, 05:00 PM
Quote:...snip...Graham Sumner post=326338 Wrote:That is cheap compared to the forthcoming Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of the Roman Army RRP £350.*head explodes* Without even a contents list it's hard to assess the quality of the submissions... 1800 words for £350 works out as £35 for a 180 page book, which isn't too unusual, but the total makes no concessions for printing in bulk. Think I'll stick to library books...
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Encyclopedia-Rom...596&sr=8-1
Quote:Given the standing of your work I'm sad to hear it doesn't earn necessarily earn you a free copy. Such illustrations are help make the book marketable after all!That Blackwell magnum opus was the last of these I contributed to, simply because they did offer me a freebie. However, as I pointed out in my letter, the model is broken and unfixable and they are squandering (and insulting) a target audience by going for the academic jugular. The list of contributors was good (at least I'd heard of them, unlike the earlier flaccid, expensive, and equipmentless Companion... volume) but I was uneasy at the intent behind it.
Most of my forthcoming work will increasingly be self-published; at least I can trust that particular idiot publisher...
Mike Bishop
