That is exactly the point dude, publishers want to get my with the least amount of cash up front... Right now, I think the going rate is about $2.00/page. That does not come close to adaquately compensating for the value these people, the good ones provide...

So, when I discuss the role of a TE, it is not from a theorhetical standpoint, it is from a practical standpoint...

With regard to your second point, don't tell me you are going to try and make the argument that the market for VB books is better than that for VFP books!!!!!< bg >. In the end, you are right....it is all about the bucks..

>Hi John --
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>Well, that's interesting. Sorry to hear your publisher only had one person doing tech rev on it, but I know how ludicrously they try to trim all "non-essential" costs these days (one of the reasons why I don't write books anymore).
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>Last publisher I turned down was for a tech rev on the upcoming Curland/Storage book, and that publisher had lined up a team approaching a dozen folks for this task. Must be something to do with the number of anticipated readers, hmmm?
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>Later... Karl