To start, one of the problems with the Must Read Magazines business model is that any progress achieved by a single author doesn’t accrue to all authors. Each author must start from scratch, negotiating from the same flawed boilerplate, and even if they do manage to arrive at a contract they can comfortably sign, they have in effect ended up with a unique contract unlike those signed by any of the other writers with whom they share a Table of Contents. {read}