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.
The publishing industry has never been so sharply divided. In the week when the erotica writer Sylvia Day signed a staggering eight-figure two-book deal with St Martin's Press, a survey reveals that 54% of traditionally-published authors and almost 80% of go-it-alone writers are making less than $1,000 (Â£600) a year.