[lbo-talk] Dumb QOTD: What kind of labor produces intellectual property?

[SA]

On 9/5/2011 5:22 PM, shag carpet bomb wrote:


> 1. the number of hours he put in to write the book, assuming it was,
> say, 4 hrs/page (I've forgotten the formula) which is probably
> low-balling it because i'm not including editing time, phone time, the
> time it took him to get the verso deal to begin with, etc.

4 hrs/page????

A book like that would normally take years of research before you even 
got to the writing stage.

SA