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Subject:Re: Tear sheets From:d r <writeagain -at- JUNO -dot- COM> Date:Tue, 21 Jan 1997 17:44:40 EST
On Tue, 21 Jan 1997 12:04:08 +0100 Paul Baur <bap -at- SOFTWARE-AG -dot- DE> writes:
When I
>worked
>for McGraw-Hill, we always had a few editions of each freshly
>printed magazine delivered unbound so we could send copies to the
>authors
>or file them for personal use.
Now that's classy. The other side of the coin is a few sportswriters I
knew who wrote books and actually had to go out and buy them (pay for the
books) themselves to use for their own purposes. I could never fully
understand the logic there, but I know it happens in the music industry
too. I was once talking to a singer who signed a record contract with a
big label. That's all she signed was a recording contract. The
stipulation was that if it sold 10,000 records, they'd sign her up for a
2nd contract. She literally went to different towns and states and
purchased her own cd. Isn't this a catch 22?
D.R.
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