Honorariums for Open Textbooks work?

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Hi everyone,

I’m hoping to get some advice on appropriate honorariums to provide to people who work on Open Textbooks. Specifically, I’d like to provide payment to someone to write a chapter for my textbook on a subject I’m not well-versed in, and I’d also like to remunerate two to three peer reviewers of the text.

Does anyone have guidance on respectful sums for writing and peer-reviewing?

Thanks,

Lindsey

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Hi Lindsey — I believe organizations like the OEN typically offer $200 honorariums for faculty reviewing textbooks. Grants for writing can very significantly based on the work that the author will be doing. We’ve actually had a conversation on paying OER contributors before; I’m dropping in a link here in case it is a useful starting point: Office Hours: Money, Money, Money! Paying OER Contributors (17 October 2019, 2pm EST/ 6pm UTC).

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