>>> On 1/26/2017 at 06:51 AM, Robert Prins <robert.ah.pr...@gmail.com> wrote: > The reply of ETJ, when I asked if they had a "Letters to the Editor" section: > > On 2017-01-26 01:31, Denny Yost wrote: > > Since you are the owner of software/hardware/services company in the IT > > industry, you can submit article for publication once you have signed an > > annual promotion contract with us for at least US$6,000 which gives you > the > > right to guaranteed publication of up to 6 articles meeting our Writer*s > > Guidelines. -snip- > You've got to be kidding? I have to pay? This would make ETJ nothing more > than > vanity publisher...
Yes, and no. The vanity publisher aspect only comes into play when people are writing about something other than what their company sells. I ran into this same problem when I changed jobs and started working for Novell, and now SUSE. Previously I was able to write for ETJ (then zJournal) and get paid for it. When I became the employee of a "vendor" that stopped, and my employer would have to pay for having any articles I wrote published. Even though I don't do marketing of any kind, and am vendor neutral as possible. Now, their rationale isn't completely bogus. They have a lot of companies out there that basically want to publish product promotional articles without them being labeled as such. If someone like you and I were to get published, with or without being paid, those other companies jump all over Bob Thomas about it. This sort of thing is also why IBM stopped paying for non-employee non-customer speakers to present at their conferences. Also an overly simple-minded solution. So, I haven't written for ETJ for years now. (The last article I actually wrote was published under the name of another well-known contributor, not mine.) They were always having problems attracting writers for Linux articles, and I've noticed they haven't had a "pure" Linux article published for quite a while, which is a shame. I didn't mind the loss of income so much, since I was using the funds to donate to a local dog rescue. But the blindly binary decision making ticked me off, particularly since they were already familiar with my work and regularly requested more of it before I changed jobs. Oh well. Their business, their gun, their foot. Mark Post ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
