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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Monte At Home" data-source="post: 1901175" data-attributes="member: 1335">For what it's worth, Spectrum is our main model, because Spectrum requires submissions. Spectrum doesn't pay, and in fact requires a submission fee .I like the Spectrum-style submissions system (fiction collections don't usually use that method) for this book because I don't want to use anything that someone doesn't want me to use. It would have been far more straightforward to just scour everyone's OGC and use that without telling anyone ahead of time (or paying anything), but that doesn't appeal to me for Golden Rule type reasons.One of the main reasons we chose not to give a nominal payment (and lets be honest, this is the game industry--it would have to be only nominal) is that the nominal payment wouldn't even be going to the actual designer. 99% of the work in the game industry is work for hire with the publisher gaining all rights. Lets say we pay 4 cents a word--which is more than many publishers pay for all rights, for original material, neither of which we're getting in this instance. If we use your 100 word feat, that's $4. As a publisher, is that kind of money really making or breaking this for you? I doubt it.Honestly, the way our industry works, as opposed to say the fiction industry, makes doing this hard. We want to reward the creators, but it's the publishers we have to appeal to because they own the copyright. I suspect Spectrum found themselves in a similar situation, because of the way art rights work (but I could be wrong).So we decided to handle this by giving the publisher a copy of the finished book, and physical awards (certificates) for the publisher and the author.Edit: And, to answer your question, Phil, you know I like a lot of your stuff, and I've said so publicly. Of course I think you should submit something.</blockquote>

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