Hello Neil,

Will this change mean a change in the payment currently offered for articles published in MEW?

Regards

Brian

Hello John,

Just to confirm, Issue MEW 313 is published and it has your article in it

Regards

Brian

Edited By Brian Wood on 11/04/2022 10:34:59

Mum had an overseas subscription problem where all us readers missed an issue.

They ended up having to reprint the magazine,

I would make sure you have a copy before back issues sell out.

Posted by Brian Wood 25/04/2022 15:39:37

I can now answer my own question. Mortons pay £45 per article page, MTM uses to pay £50.
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If you look up the Guidelines for both MEW and ME they naturally have not been
updated to reflect the new ownership ,ME payments are listed as £30 To £50
per page and MEW are £40 to £ 50 per page.

I seem to remember that when David Clark took over as editor and saved this
magazine he immediately put the page rate from £35 up to £50
per page.

Looks as if it has been going backwards ever since he was replaced
as editor.
Considering it was around February 2007 when he started as editor and the page
rate looks be going down 15 years later ,who's the parent company P&O ?.

John

Hi John Purdy, I'm in Toronto. Glad to hear I'm not the only one missing magazines.

Received 314 on 28 March and requested missing 313 on 02 April. Received 308?? on 12 April and requested 313 again.

Still waiting, Don Hill.

Posted by Luker 26/04/2022 06:54:46

I really do feel for the editors of these magazines, it’s an unforgiving job juggling
everyone’s ‘wants’ while walking the financial tightrope!

I think authors that are innovative, can do their own designs and still string words
together coherently are very rare. Then of course they need to have the time to
do all the drawings etc. for very little money. I wonder how many pages
(in a magazine) can be filled with articles from this dying breed of writers! I
personally enjoy reading the ME magazine; it has a nice balance of
journalistic articles and technical articles.

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When Neil became editor his 2 page future outlook for the magazine
was real killer , for your statement " I think authors that are innovative, can do
their own designs and still string words together coherently are very rare"

I scrapped a complete machine build article that i was writing to send to
MEW because of this ,many of the authors of these type of articles jumped
ship to ME they mostly seem to have vanished by now.

The shopping list approach to article submission just stifles imagination,
many of the subjects within this posting here

https://www.model-engineer.co.uk/forums/postings.asp?th=179124

would most probably exceed his own set page limits or be so short
to be of little use .

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What happened to David Clark's posting of 25/04/2022 22:12:26:
was it taken down by Putin's press office.

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I know how difficult it can be to write a long construction article,to get the
sequencing for machining operations do all the drawings etc ,unfortunately
magazines don't seem to be interested in publishing these any more .
ME almost seemed interested in this

https://www.model-engineer.co.uk/forums/postings.asp?th=87736

but seemed to spend a lot of time working out how publish it but not
in the magazine ,8 years later its still at the bottom of the heap,if they
haven't lost it again.

Is it any wonder that authors would not bother to write such things
and just leave it to the Drawbar and tool holder brigade.

Just as an aside getting back to when David Clark became editor
and put the page rate to £50 the cover price for the magazine
MEW Was £3.75 the last issue i had when i cancelled my subscription
at 302 was £5.75 if the page rate had changed in the same proportion
within this period it would now be £70.

John

The joys of being an editor. Usually a huge workload, under massive deadline pressure, with minimal resources these days. Then every time you publish, your day's or month's work is out there for everybody in the world to leisurely inspect. And every one of them is an expert on how you could have done it better.

Hopper

The joys of being an editor.

I wanted to do Model Engineers Workshop part9 time. Management wanted it as a full time position.

Sni I started full time and edited the first two magazines In a fortnight, the did what I wanted for four weeks before I had to do the next issue. It did take longer as the forum started but if you love what you do it is not work.

Currently back to MEW 194. when/if the rest get updated to HTML5 then all issues but I'd be inclined to hold fire until the changeover has settled down if you are only subscribing for archive access.