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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BastionPress_Creech" data-source="post: 1725138" data-attributes="member: 12016">I can answer for one of those publishers right now in my official capacity as Marketing Director. Bastion Press will not enter any awards where we are required to "pay" for the privilege of being considered as a nominee. Sending six copies of each of the three titles we submitted represented a considerable dollar investment on our part. To tell us that we have to spend an additional $10-$20 per book to help subsidize the costs of the awards show is ludricous. If that is the course that the ENnies take, then we will no longer participate.Money to run the awards cannot come from the companies that enter in terms of an admission fee. You want financial resources and backing to help with the awards? Make it through advertising and donations like other awards do. There has to be another way to finance matters other than an entry fee. This line of thought will only lead to less and less publisher participation until the awards degenerate into nothing more than a shadow of what they were.</blockquote>