Payments for Contributors
to the International Encyclopedia of Ethics

The rule:

"The Contributor will be entitled to receive on publication free personal access to the Electronic version of the Work for a period of one year from the date of on-line publication, the right to purchase one entire set of volumes of the Work for personal use at a discount of 50% off the published price, and the right to purchase at a discount of 25% from the published price copies of any work published by Wiley-Blackwell and currently in print, provided that all such purchases, including purchases of the Work, are paid for in advance by the Author and are for the Author's personal use only. The Author will also be entitled to (either, In the case of total Contributions of between 1,000 words and 5,000 words In total) $100.00 worth of Wiley-Blackwell books of their choosing (or, In the case of total Contributions of between 5001 words and 10,000 words in total) $200 worth of Wiley-Blackwell books (or, in the case of total Contributions of between 10,001 and 25,000 words in total) $450 worth of Wiley-Blackwell books (or, in the case of total Contributions of between 25,001 and 40,000 words in total) $600 worth of Wiley-Blackwell books (or, In the case of total Contributions of over 40,000 words) one complete set of the Work in print."

Note from the EIC

I know some authors would prefer monetary remuneration. I would prefer offering money. However, the press says they cannot do it; their reasoning seems plausible. The IEE is a large multivolume and online reference work, sufficiently expensive so that few individuals will buy a personal copy. Nearly all sales will be to libraries - and there are only so many of these, with most sales going to research libraries at universities. Consequently, the gross income from this project won't be exceedingly high. Then, since there will be 700 different people with a role (author, editor, reviewer, etc.), there's not much financial wiggle-room. To give people with minor roles (one short essay) more than a pittance would require giving people with multiple roles (editor and author) more money than is feasible.

I tried to get the best arrangement possible. I am actually impressed that the press is giving away nearly $200,000 worth of books. They are also bearing significant up-front costs to produce this work. To me this indicates their strong commitment to the IEE.