LITERARY PAY by Editor

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Nov 4, 1889

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 15, No. 42.

LITERARY PAY.

By Editor

It may be of interest to our readers to know what rates New York papers pay for contributed matter, and we have prepared a list. Popular authors and writers with great reputations get fancy prices, but the regular rates are as follows: The Evening Post pays $5.00 a column; the Herald, $8.00; the Mail and Express, $5.00 to $6.00; the Commercial Advertiser, $5.00; the World, $8.00; the Sun, $8.00; the Tribune, $8.00; and the Times, $6.00 to $8.00. The number of words in a column is from 1,700 to 2,000. Harper's Weekly and the Cosmopolitan Magazine pay a cent a word for matter they accept. The North American Review and the Home-Maker pay ¾ of a cent a word. Outing pays $3.00 for a printed page; Frank Leslie's Magazine, $6.00 a page; Belford's, $3.00. The Batcheller Syndicate pays ½ cent a word, and De Grimm $10 a column.—Western Journal.