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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Inconsequenti-AL" data-source="post: 304292" data-attributes="member: 6584">[This was posted by Morrus - tht's what happens when you share a PC in a hotel room and forget to log the previous user off! - Morrus]I haven't thought too deeply about this yet (we have months to work this out), but I have briefly spoken to Monte and Clark Peterson, amongst others, and have read through this thread.Every one of the issues presented occured to us even before the publishers started sending in their stuff.  Peter Adkison and I talked it over, and we both came to the conclusion that banning a company is not a good option- so WotC were allowed to enter this year.  It is exceedingly unlikely that that will change.However, I firmly agree with those who feel that a company's sales should not influence the results.  In other words, we ideally want the awards to recognise what is the best, not what has sold the most copies.  That'll take some thinking to figure out.  Right now, there is no way way to measure what effect sales volumes had as opposed to quality - there were no wins there that I'd say "No way!" to.  Anyway, we have plenty of time to think about this.  Lasy year I asked for opinions from publishers etc. and the awards were changed largely based on the feedback I got.  This year I'll do the same.  All in all, I was pretty darn happy with the whole thing - and the publishers I spoke to seemed to be pretty pleased too.-Morrus</blockquote>

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