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Re: What does $3 a page mean to you?

Subject: Re: What does $3 a page mean to you?
From: Michele Davis <michele -at- krautgrrl -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 09:44:05 -0500


A small claims court judge may not take your side about the word BOOK being "snuck in" at the last minute, and it doesn't matter if it's in your agreement or not. I've won small claims court with no contract at all. You knew it was book pages, and you could have walked away at that point. You did not, therefore your invoice is going to have to reflect that $600 loss.

Michele
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Bonnie Granat wrote:

The client's response:

"It should have always been understood that it was book pages.
Proofing, indexing, composition are all by the book page and so we do
copyedits by the book page to keep it consistent. I know it sounds a
little backwards, but that's the way it is. You'll see on the memo I
sent you that it says per book page."

The memo he is referring to is the memo that was delivered via UPS
with a CD containing the manuscript and a printout of the figures for
the book.

"It does have the sentence: Enclosed please find the text files and
figure printouts for the above title. Assuming payment of $3 per book
page, plese edit and code this book in Microsoft Word, using the
copyediting guidelines, production guidelines, and coding styles."

I read the memo and wasn't concerned at the presence of that word
"book" because the memo was not our agreement!

Now I can either respond to the publisher and say that, or I can




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References:
What does $3 a page mean to you?: From: Bonnie Granat
What does $3 a page mean to you?: From: Geoff Hart
Re: What does $3 a page mean to you?: From: Bonnie Granat

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