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Guidebook writers here are being laid off and/or offered peanuts for doing updates or even new guidebooks, so that the cost of doing them is quite simply utterly uneconomic. They’re finding their books plagiarised on free websites purporting to offer travel information, or extracted (with a few words slightly changed) on the blogs of would-be travel writers.

People who write travel articles rather than books, are finding that fees are dropping through the floor. That is the kind of writing I generally do. In this case I would say that insisting on a contract is of course wise, although I have also found that email is pretty good with editors you know, at least in the UK. However, let’s just forget about contracts because many editors are now simply and openly saying that they don’t pay for contributions – and i’m talking some pretty major names. Newsprint still pays, but is under increasing threat. Print magazines are getting smaller – even the major players, like National Geographic are thin and anemic compared with how they used to be. That is because print ad revenues are dropping off and nobody has yet figured out how to make proper money from online content, (although Murdoch will soon be having a go. )

So anyway, tell me folks, are things very different from this outside the UK and the US? I am told that there’s no sign of a problem in Switzerland (!) and some emerging markets are still pretty strong. But what are these markets?.

And by “clients” are we talking about editors or, say, PR or marketing organisations?