My wife and her "co-author" have edited five books for the American Association of Museums in the past 15 yrs. Three were revisions of an existing AAM title on registrarial practise and policy and the latest two on problems of collection management. Her lump check for the last was 5K$. I doubt this was carpenter union scale per hr. for her effort and contributors were NOT compensated. On the side, she edited a poetry collection for a friend and a collection of stories of bicycle racing/touring for her husband, both with "print on demand" publisher LULU. The poetry collection reproduced a few photos, both had presentable cover art for a paperback, and neither looked liked photostats of typescript. The poetry collection actually sold a handful of copies; the story collection none to date. I assume without question that bicycle tourists and racing fans are as much in need of my immoital words as Parker enthusiasts are of Ed's so conclude that a mechanism of publicity and distribution is sadly lacking in this sort of effort. [my statement regarding prices of SDH's books netside some months ago removed] My wife has a Kindle; I can't stand the damn thing. Some of us will cross the river to the new promised land of information dissemination; some of us won't.
jack
