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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jer" data-source="post: 3494299" data-attributes="member: 19857">I don't think either of these are necessarily true, though.  Wizards is being really quiet about what will/won't be in the DI, who will be creating content, what the content might be, etc.  They haven't made deals for comic content with Rich Burlew, but that doesn't mean that they aren't going to have comic content on their site -- it just means that they want different content than what Dragon and Dungeon were producing (and probably under different terms - terms that give Wizards more control and revenue from the publication of the strips in compilations.  I wouldn't be surprised to see Dragonlance or Realms comics show up as webcomics on a DI site, so that Wizards are promoting their own characters and material instead of promoting Rich's -- again, not the move I would make, but I'm not a multi-billion dollar company looking for ways to shill my Intellectual Property).Likewise, they clearly haven't shared any information about the DI with folks outside the company yet - even freelancers.  That doesn't mean that they won't be soliciting contributions from freelancers in the future, that just means that they aren't soliciting them right now.  I wouldn't be surprised if they weren't stockpiling content to have a full site with lots of updates available at rollout, and soliciting submissions at that point to keep building the pile.  Once they have revealed the format and the type of content they want to get, it will be easier to ask freelancers to contribute pitches for similar stuff.  Also, remember what Wizard's lead-time is like on books -- they seem to have these things in the can a year or so before we even see them in the catalog, let alone before they hit the shelves.I mean, these could be indications that they're going to cut off outsiders from submissions altogether -- a boneheaded move on their part because the submission process is where they find new writers, but maybe they think they've found a better model.  But right now all I see is a company with a "new product" coming out that isn't ready to advertise it yet -- no different from any of the books that Wizards refuses to talk about until they hit the catalog, or sometimes even before they hit the shelves.</blockquote>

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