Oh I wasn't arguing...I was merely point out that you guys are quite happy to use the medium of the Internet...as it suits your requirements...but not for any of your potential international writers/submitters.

 

This 'you shouldn't argue with the editor' line is getting old real fast. It makes no impression on me whatsoever.

It's still a free world (kind of) and if I disagree with a magazine or an editor's view then I'll say so.

I'm not a sheep. Threats of not being published don't bother me in the slightest.

 

And your assumption that I might at some future point send you a postal manuscript is misguided.

With so many magazines and webzines and publishing houses now accepting email subs...why would I bother to send a paper manuscript to you guys?

That's just not logical.

(Although if you had been prepared to read at least ten pages of my novella via email and liked it...then I would have happily have sent the whole manuscript via normal post...having then been assured that you were interested enough in the story to have me go to the trouble and expense of posting it. I believe that was a very reasonable request...but as I wrote before...intractable.)

 

Hey...it's your magazine...you reject email subs as you see fit.

 

I think you will find that as time goes by (and it's happening already) fewer and fewer writers in countries overseas will go to the trouble of sending postal manuscripts to the USA.

 

A lot of publishing companies have moved with the times...those that don't...well we all know what happened to the dinosaurs don't we?

 

Thoughts to ponder on for sure.

 

Cheers: Jaqhama.

 

Now I expect some of you here at the SF Forum think I can be a real pain in the ass when I want to.

And you're correct.

But if I see something 'wrong' then I'm prepared to stand up and say so.

So the guy's an editor...so what?

I don't live in fear of not being published. (And the threat not to publish a story I might send later via snail mail...gee, talk about predictable. )

 

It's not like I read; or know anyone else in Sydney who subscribes to ROF anyway.

 

I'm not having a shot at all editors here by the way...just the one's who keep harping on about how they won't accept email subs...but use the internet and all that it entails to advertise, promote and sell their magazine in the first place.

 

Like some of us here and on other forums have said before...if magazine companies aren't prepared to accept email subs as the years go by...one day they're going to wake up and wonder why they aren't are getting that many.

 

And here's an ironic story for you...my editor at Bikernet is Keith 'Bandit' Ball...he was for many years the editor of the infamous Easyriders magazine...more than ten years ago now Bandit started the online biker lifestyle webzine called Bikernet...many people in the paper magazine publishing industry thought he was crazy...yet today Bikernet is the biggest online Harley/Custom motorcycle webzine on the planet. Bikernet has an admirable list of sponsors and advertisers from all aspects of the motorcycle world and beyond. The webzine gets over a million hits a month and has a list of paid up subscribers in the thousands from all over the world.

Not bad for being 'only' an internet webzine huh?

Bikernet is read by more people, in more countries, than any motorcycle magazine anywhere.

 

Bandit nicely anticipated, and has continued to do so, the rise of the Internet and its ever growing popularity.

All subs to Bikernet are via email...there is no paper at all.

 

I always think it strange that a hardcore biker webzine is so up to date, and that so many other 'genre' publishers...including sci-fi magazines that (one would think) would be at the forefront of internet technology..either aren't...or refuse to become so.

 

It's an odd world.

 

Cheers: Jaq.