Cost of outsourced writing

[Y.B.]

I just saw another thread on here that claims someone outsourced a fiction novel for $50 which I find to be crazy cheap

So my question is, what have you found to be the average prices for good content?

I think the prices I have mostly seen are around $1000 for a 100 page ebook (non-fiction).

I've never worked with fiction so not sure if that would be more or less expensive.

Also who do you normally to outsource: freelance site like elance, someone else you've worked with in the past from a referral?

 

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[Y.B.]

Also would be curious as to what people recommend as a good page limit for ebooks (not ones sold on amazon but ones for info products sold on clickbank type sites)

 

[Ziva]

Odesk has worked well for me. I have hired both non-fiction and fiction writers there. You do get what you pay for for sure. Fiction writers generally cost less than non-fiction because non-fiction writers need to perform research as well. I hire fiction writers for $.005 per word, but I do major editing of the stories myself. All of my non-fiction books I paid writers $.01 per word with mixed results. I got some writers who were native English speaking and did a great job, while others were terrible. Offer a little bit more pay, and you'll get higher quality applicants for sure. If you were to offer $1000 for a 100 page ebook you could probably find a high quality writer.

 

[Lex DeVille]

I outsourced for $50.00 and got complete crap.

It involved some serious hustling, and it wasn't for a novel, but a novella.

Odesk is where a lot of people find freelancers. A referral will lead to better results though.

I went with a freelancer with over 750 hours billed and a 4 1/2 star (I think) for $75 and still got crap.

Usually I see fixed price gigs on there for $100 to $120 for fiction novellas of 10k to 20k words.

 

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[Charnell]

I've found that it's usually not the amount being offered that changes the quality, but the location of the worker. Every time I get something back from a country who's native tongue isn't English, I always assume it's going to be bottom of the barrel, and need heavy editing and revising. That's whether I pay $10 or $100.