How does Abby from "Dear Abby" make money?

I wrote a letter to her tonight online, asking for advice, and was really surprised to know that she reads every letter submitted to her. And I think she answers about three letters daily.





Where does she find the money to pay for "Dear Abby", since she doesn't charge for answering letters?





My mom reads the column daily, and I recently started to.|||It's a syndicated column. She gets paid by the newspapers which carry the column. On-line work helps maintain the brand name recognition, which keeps up the amount she can charge the newspapers.





I think this is the second "Abby". The first was named Abby, but this one isn't. Some of the advice columnists are actually teams, with staff and writers. It's a business, much like any other. The product is the column.|||Angel is correct. This is Abby's daughter. The original Abigail van Buren died a few years ago. She and her sister each had advice columns for years.|||The newspaper pays her to write the advice column. She has a contract with each newspaper paying her a certain amount each year for her column, and she is supposed to write so many each week.