Good point.
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I have no truck with any of this. It came up recently on the wompo list, to almost universal condemnation. There are also presses and journals that don't send a free contributor's copy (but give a 40% discount). It's real simple--if you can't afford to publish books don't publish books.
Mark
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Salt only charge an entry fee for their prize contests. I'm not aware of any UK publishers charging a fee to read a manuscript, but I've heard of it in more than one place in the US.
In the US it seems quite common for prizes to govern eventual publication, and there's a fee to enter that, so it amounts to the same thing, yes?
Tony
On 3 Nov 2011, at 22:52, Alec Newman wrote:
David,
That's a bloody good idea. How much can I charge?
Salt do that thing once a year where you pay £10 to have your manuscript considered.
Alec
> Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2011 22:35:24 +0000
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> I’ve noticed that some U.S. poetry publishers charge a “reading fee” to look at poetry manuscript submissions. Do some UK poetry publishers also do this?
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> I would only be willing to pay a reading fee if a manuscript I submitted would be guaranteed publication on that basis...only joking!
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