UK Guidebook Writers: ‘Readers are Getting a Poorer Experience’
Travel Blog • Michael Yessis • 01.24.07 | 8:33 AM ET
In recent years I’ve heard some grumbling about the state of guidebooks and the shrinking pay for guidebook writers, but nothing quite as explicit as in this article in the London Times. Melissa Shales, former chair of the British Guild of Travel Writers, told the Times’s Tom Chesshyre, “Publishers are using unqualified rookie authors. Some authors are unscrupulously not even going to destinations. The attitude among many is: ‘They pay ****, they get ****.’ ”
Related on World Hum:
* I Wrote a Travel Guidebook and All I Got Was a Pistol Whipping in Caracas
* The History of Guidebooks
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Michael Yessis is the cofounder and coeditor-in-chief of World Hum.
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