It's very rare that publications double their frequency.
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Fewer than half of all university professors publish as much as one article per year.
The hard fact is that not everyone does get published.
One the other hand, the publishing trend is ghastly, isn't it? Two hundred and something distributors are now down to 10 or 12? And what's the recruiting drive?
From 1999 on - until 2003 - I covered publishing in a weekly column for Wired.com and wrote for several other publications - altogether writing over 150 articles.
When there are fewer and fewer publishers of scale, it's just not good for authors.
There has to be a common sense cutoff for craziness, and when that threshold is exceeded, then the criteria for publication should get far, far more stringent.
There are so many magazines and so many editors out there that you have to be different.
If you imagine writing 1,000 words a day, which most journalists do, that would be a very long book a year. I don't manage nearly that... but I have published slightly too much recently.
As a journalist for 35 years, and now author for 20, I've learned that there's always more.
With the big publishers, they publish 50 books and promote five.
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