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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mark" data-source="post: 4381002" data-attributes="member: 5">People can make purchases or send money through Paypal and all conversions are handled (I believe there are also alternatives to Paypal that do precisely the same) with no effort to the receiver whatsoever.PDFs in past ENnies were handled by CD submissions.  So, podcasts were actually handled sensibly in the past and rather than upgrade the handling of PDFs in the same manner, the way podcasts were handled was downgraded?Indeed.  Why should entrants not all shoulder some of the burden collectively through a entry fee system (like so many other similar contests and competitions) when nominees and winners all directly benefit financially and and by gained prestige?  Seems to me a simple five dollar fee per entry is precious little to require for process and handling of entries, weeds out those who might simply send in everything they produce on a single CD as a whim, and would help to greatly offset the general costs of the awards.And, honestly, who could really claim that votes are being bought when everyone pays the same per entry (as per above, print entries receiving a sort of voucher by emailing a scan of a shipping receipt)?  Did anyone claim the collective publishers on Your Games Now had bought the awards last year?  If anyone had made the claim would they have been taken seriously?  That argument has no merit, IMO.</blockquote>