Authors Registry Grows Some More as
Weight Watchers Magazine Signs
May 29, 1997 - Weight Watchers, the million-circulation lifestyle
magazine for the weight conscious, has contracted with the Authors Registry
to handle payments to freelance writers for reuses of their work.
The magazine, recently purchased and revamped by Southern Progress Corp., a
division of Time, Inc., has begun offering outside contributors a new contract
that specifies fees for anthologies and other extra uses of articles after
publication. Reuse payments are to be made through the Registry, the licensing
and payment clearinghouse for authors.
"Weight Watchers is 80 percent freelance-written," says Kate Greer,
who has overseen the remake of the 30-year-old magazine since her appointment
as editor last summer. "I regard good freelance writers as an absolute treasure.
Our agreement to pay through the Authors Registry when we reuse their work is one
way of showing that."
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