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Bookworm
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  		   Posted 7/15/2007 1:48 PM (GMT -5)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
 
Readers:
 
I've been following the submissions at the "Good Editor," and "Bad Editor," forums here with great interest. A while ago I found this piece of information online in the Time Magazine Archive.
 
I hope you are able to visit this site and read the article. It reguards Arthur Sullivant Hoffman, who was THE editor at Adventure Magazine in the 1920s when Adventure was the number one best selling pulp magazine in America.
 
Please read this, and let me know what you think.
 
Enjoy...
 
Lee
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  		   Posted 7/15/2007 2:22 PM (GMT -5)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
interesting article and publication date on the article!

Thanks for the link, Lee :)

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  		   Posted 7/15/2007 4:19 PM (GMT -5)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Times have changed a lot since that was originally published.

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  		   Posted 7/15/2007 5:16 PM (GMT -5)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.

That was very interesting.  I loved the unabashed parading of the literary and educational pedigrees of the men involved with Adventure.

Three cents a word in 1935?  That would be equivalent to a very good rate today.

-Barb

Research edit:
According to Measuring Worth. com, $1.00 in 1935 had the buying power of $14.68 today.  So being paid $150.00 for a 5,000 word short story in 1935 would be roughly the same as being paid $2,194 today - about .43 a word.

Ah, for the days when a good and prolific writer could make a living with short stories. :)

 

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  		   Posted 7/15/2007 9:31 PM (GMT -5)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Beautiful article, thanks for the link! Quite the ending to it, too.

Welcome to the forum Lee Bookworm!

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  		   Posted 7/17/2007 12:19 PM (GMT -5)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
I loved the article.
That was the magazine that many of the writers we idolize today aspired to and fell short of.
Mike

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