Yes, the folks who write big books that are printed on white paper, which you can buy at Barnes & Noble. Of course, there are less successful guys whose books you are hard to find even digging all day long at Amazon. But both successful and not very successful ones are paid on the character count basis (more info on the topic you can find in the History of Word Count Metrics).
If you know any other profession where people get their money on a per word, per character, or per-line basis, leave you to comment, and we will include it in the update to this article 🙂