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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cthulhu's Librarian" data-source="post: 1735175" data-attributes="member: 11064">I have a hard time thinking that a few extra dollars for shipping is going to really keep a publisher from entering their books. They might not enter as many books (some publishers sent everything they released to us this year, which even I, as a judge, though was excessive in some cases), only entering what they consider to be their best work.    Speaking from personal experience, I worked for several years as the Assistant Editor at HarperPrism (now Eos), the SF/Fantasy imprint of HarperCollins Publishers. When we received notification of the call for entries for the major awards (Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy, World Horror, etc) we ALWAYS were required to send a package of entries to the judges individually. It didn't matter if they were going to New York, Texas, Canada, India, or Japan. All the judges were sent their packages individually. Now I'll admit that HarperCollins is a much bigger company than any RPG company, but all the publishers-large, small, and in between, followed the same rules for entry that we did. The guy publishing his novels in the basement, the small publishers like Cemetary Dance Publications, the medium size companies like Baen Books or Tor Books, and the big companies like HarperCollins and Random House all mailed all their entries individually. If we wanted our books to be considered, we paid the few extra dollars to do it. It's not really that much more to send six 5 pound packages than to send one 30 pound package, is it? If you need to, think of the extra expense as a little donation towards the ENnies, so Russ or Joe don't have to pay for the shipping out of pocket with no reimbursement. We're not asking for the world.</blockquote>

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