With the sharp decline in the world stocks of cod, other salted and dried white fish are sometimes marketed as salt cod, and the term has become to some extent a generic name.ried cod and the dishes made from it are known by many different names, many of them derived from the root bacal- , itself of unknown origin; explorer John Cabot reported that it was the name used by the inhabitants of Newfoundland.
The research, commissioned by The Authorsâ Licensing and Collecting Society, found the top 5 per cent of writers earned close to half of all the income received by professional authors in 2013. The median income for professional writers is just Â£10,432, less than the minimum wage.
According to Forbes.com, J.K. Rowling tops the list of highest paid authors in the world. She earns more than $300 million per year as a novelist. Tom Clancy, second on the list, earns $50 million per year. These authors stand out because many of their novels have been turned into films. Sometimes producers buy options for film rights, meaning they buy the right to produce the story as a film.