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Wind Lowers Prices: New Scientist | 33 comments (33 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)
Re: Wind Lowers Prices: New Scientist (none / 0)
Is it possible to describe the publication process of this excellent example?

How was the first contact made: personal contact, previous dealings, request from publisher, submitted on spec etc?

How much editorial input from the publisher?

Length of time from submission to publication?

You can't be me, I'm taken

by Sven Triloqvist on Thu Jul 29th, 2010 at 09:22:09 AM EST
Re: Wind Lowers Prices: New Scientist (none / 1)
NS has a couple of op-ed pages managed by an op-ed editor.

I pitched something to them a few years ago. They were interested, but both of us got distracted and I never had the time to follow it up.

by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Thu Jul 29th, 2010 at 10:13:03 AM EST
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Re: Wind Lowers Prices: New Scientist (4.00 / 4)
NS made contact after seeing a JaP post saying wind annoyed incumbents by bringing prices down (X-posted on DKos where it was seen).

From first contact to publication, about six weeks.

Editorial input (excellent) was simplification of technical points and slight reduction in length (our first draft was a little over the approximate word count requested, but better that than be short).

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Thu Jul 29th, 2010 at 10:35:26 AM EST
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Re: Wind Lowers Prices: New Scientist (4.00 / 2)
The post by Jerome that was noticed is Wind's latest problem: it ... makes power too cheap.
by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Thu Jul 29th, 2010 at 10:54:02 AM EST
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Re: Wind Lowers Prices: New Scientist (none / 0)
OK. Good. Seems a long time to get it published, but I guess there is also the difficulty of you and J writing the article on busy schedules. After the final edit it was probably a fairly rapid process?

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by Sven Triloqvist on Thu Jul 29th, 2010 at 11:21:44 AM EST
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Some delay was caused by the fact that J was travelling all the time if not perched on a windmill in the North Sea. I think there was also a wait for an available slot.
by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Thu Jul 29th, 2010 at 11:32:41 AM EST
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Wind Lowers Prices: New Scientist | 33 comments (33 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)
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