A friend of mine has just been asked to price a job to produce 290 illustrations for a physical science college textbook, with a 6 month work window. He is new to this and really has no clue where to start with figuring the amount to ask for. This is for major textbook publisher. He has done a few illustrations for them already piecmeal at $55/hr, so they must like the results so far. Any sort of pricing and contract pointers for a large hunk of work, from those who have been there would be apreciated. He wants to price competatively but not lowball or undercut the market. I have my own opinions, but I think more points of view are needed to get a realistic idea of how to approach this. Britt -- _______________________________________ Britt Griswold/WMAP Project Infonetic/Maslow Media Group NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Code 685 Bldg. 21 Rm 063 Greenbelt, MD 20771-0001 (301) 286-3381 (301) 286-1617 FAX (301) 286-7230 FAX [log in to unmask] http://map.gsfc.nasa.gov