The valuation's range for writing never published online

The pessimistic and optimistic cases the valuation gives one million words of edited writing never published online, priced against the other records of writing priced per word: a tenth of the weighted records lie below the first and a tenth above the second.

Updated 19 Oct 2026, from its newest record.

The 3 records it is computed from, largest first

Records behind this figure
Record	Amount	As stated	Dated	Source
Karl May Korpus (the works of the German author Karl May, about 1.6 million words)	$3.9K	3500.00 € per corpus, commercial use	11 Oct 2026	ELRA catalogue, Karl May Korpus (ELRA-W0016)
Dutch PAROLE Distributable Corpus (3 million words of books, newspapers and periodicals)	$2.8K	2500.00 € per corpus, commercial use	11 Oct 2026	ELRA catalogue, Dutch PAROLE Distributable…
General text sold through a data marketplace (Defined.ai's quoted rate)	$0	$0.001 a word	5 Apr 2024	Reuters, via The Decoder

Karl May Korpus (the works of the German author Karl May, about 1.6 million words)
Amount
$3.9K
As stated
3500.00 € per corpus, commercial use
Dated
11 Oct 2026
Source
ELRA catalogue, Karl May Korpus (ELRA-W0016)
Dutch PAROLE Distributable Corpus (3 million words of books, newspapers and periodicals)
Amount
$2.8K
As stated
2500.00 € per corpus, commercial use
Dated
11 Oct 2026
Source
ELRA catalogue, Dutch PAROLE Distributable…
General text sold through a data marketplace (Defined.ai's quoted rate)
Amount
$0
As stated
$0.001 a word
Dated
5 Apr 2024
Source
Reuters, via The Decoder

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