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In Reply to: RE: "many reviewers ... rely on income from them to put food on their table" posted by Rob Doorack on May 04, 2016 at 06:42:30
Surely there is a better horse to beat than this one?
I speculate that the "pay" for most reviewers, myself included, is more an acknowledgment of a contribution than compensation for effort. Writing and listening are surely pleasures as well as an education, but there is no way the pay compensates for the time required for the effort.
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The real benefit of getting a small payment for writing reviews isn't the money itself. Declaring the payments as "free lance writing income" on your tax return enables you to deduct some of what you spend on your hobby as expenses related to the writing job. I did that for years, back when I wrote for Listener , and the IRS never questioned anything I claimed.
Edits: 05/05/16
I think you are forgetting access to equipment at varying degrees of "dealer cost"! Of course there is the long term loaner thing as well. I am looking at an amp that is on its way back to a manufacturer from a reviewer who wrote the review nearly 6 years ago.
Art Dudley, Listener's editor and owner, didn't accept long term equipment loans nor did he allow his writers to do them. The trade discount was less important because I deducted the cost of whatever equipment I bought. I didn't buy new gear very often anyway; I probably averaged one component a year during my time writing for Listener . The larger points are 1) the number of people who make a living from writing about audio can be counted on the fingers of one hand, and 2) for part timers, the pay for writing an article is little more than an honorarium.
Maybe not pay but an honorarium.
Bill
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