Come on!
So UK authors earn over 60% of all UK earnings, do they? Come on! ("the top 10 per cent of authors earn 60 per cent of all the money earned in the UK"). This is really shoddy work, surely the author, or Ed, could have engaged their brain before letting this one through? If they had read the original report, which took me all of 2 minutes, it seems quite clear that the top 10% of authors earn over 50% of all _authors_ earnings, not of the grand sum of all earnings in the UK! They are making a point about the inequality of earnings within the profession. The entire creative industry as a whole only makes up 7-8% of UK GDP (from the original source: http://www.cippm.org.uk/current.html), how could that possibly translate into such a massive percentage of total earnings?
I know that Potter lady makes a bob or two, but this is just so obviously not right that it makes me wonder about the copy/paste standard of some of these articles.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
