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Subject:Pages per Day (was: One publication or two?) From:Alexander Von_obert <avobert -at- TWH -dot- MSN -dot- SUB -dot- ORG> Date:Wed, 27 Sep 1995 13:52:00 LCL
Hello,
* Antwort auf eine Nachricht von John McGhie an All am 23.09.95
JM> From: jmcghie -at- world -dot- net (John McGhie)
JM> We would say that a "book" should contain about 200 pages (plus
JM> front and back
JM> matter, which meant the end result was trending nearer 250
JM> sheets of paper)
JM> and would take about six person-months to design, write, and
JM> produce from scratch.
if we talk about 20 workdays a month, this means
250 Pages / (6 workmonths * 20 workdays_per_month) = 2 pages per workday.
This is about what I know from larger corporations here in Germany. You might
remember one of my last messages where I talked about 5 pages per day as an
absolute maximum for quality work - even for very agressive freelancers.
Greetings from Germany,
Alexander
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