Publishers have responded to the demand that they make their product free to readers by charging their writers fees to cover the costs of preparing an article.
Although Ms. Brown's writers' fees and high-profile promotional events have been blamed for the magazine's financial losses, Steve Florio said they were not the problem.
It is also at the centre of the writers' fees controversy: the festival recently hit the headlines after Philip Pullman resigned as patron over its failure to pay authors.
For all the rhetoric of "paying the writers", fees for published work in Australia remain depressed and large masses of poorly paid writers and artists compete in a cut-throat freelance market.
Each issue of the magazine costs as much as $150,000 to get out the door, including salaries, writers' fees and printing, but brings in just $100,000 in ad revenues.
Other funders pay APCs out of a general publication fund, classifying them with page and colour charges and medical writers' fees, where these are used.
Since payment structures tend to involve a sum paid up front to cover both the trip itself and the writer's fee, the less spent on the trip, the more the writer keeps.
Liz Hoggard Ghost Moth is out now, published by W&N, £12.99 Detective fiction, period detail and dementia meet in a much-courted, multifaceted debut If a publisher likes a new novel, they will offer the writer a fee (often rather paltry; £2,000 is typical for first-timers).
The writer's fee for this piece will be donated to the Unity Day fund.
He continues, "If the main reason for that change is the writer's fee which was agreed for Tatia and me, I, personally, would be happy to receive less.
