For writers, the glaring inability to make a decent living was painfully brought home last year by award-winning author Neal Gabler's cri de coeur in The Atlantic about being dead broke after a lifetime of writing. As Gabler noted, the advances were never enough to cover his expenses in the years it took to write a book, and the magazines he wrote for continued to pay him the exact same amount they had paid him 20 years ago for an article of the same length. Hey, Neal, I can top that: This website is paying me one-twentieth of what I used to make writing magazine articles 20 years ago. But, oh, the fame!
Sucks for us: Why Barack and Michelle Obama’s $65 million book deal is the last thing we need - Salon.com
6 March 2017
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