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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Michael Morris" data-source="post: 1241400" data-attributes="member: 87">Here's an idea to try to use the ENnies as a catalyst to drive up back list sales (sort of).  Once the nominees are chosen, pick out some juicy bits from each nominee (oh, 5 to 10 page excerpts).  With 24 nominees that makes fore a 200-240 page "Best of" book.  Ideas on format:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Each article would be produced verbatim with the publishers express permission, including both it's OGL and Non-OGL content (hence the reason why the publisher's blessing would need to be secured).  If possible the item's layout as presented in the original form</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Winner of the best cover art award has dibs on the cover of the Best of Book.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Profits will go to support the operational costs of the ENnies and the ENWorld site.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Copies of the book could be provided to retailers to encourage sales of the original products.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Each article would contain ordering information for the product.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Each product will have only one excerpt no matter how many nominations it goes.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Honorable mentions will be included.</li> </ul>Are the publishers out there keen on this idea?  It's just something that occured to me that might be fun.</blockquote>