Wait… Did I miss something?
Posted: July 30, 2012 Filed under: Odds and Ends | Tags: advertisement, magazine, pay to write Leave a commentI was recently approached by an online magazine (I’ll leave the name out, at least for now) to write for them. Initially I was honored, flattered and wowed. Really? They chose *me* to write for them? I thought.
Then I looked more closely at the offer. They want me to pay them for a membership to get my articles published with them. WHAT?
Since when do magazines no longer pay contributing writers, and instead charge them? Not a magazine I’m willing to write for… or read for that matter, now that I know that it’s not a magazine but an advertisement system.
Is this the way that many magazines have gone? Or have I encountered the odd one out?