[New-Poetry] Electronic Submissions

[James Cervantes]

It's a no-brainer.  The words weigh as much on screen as on paper.
- Jim, obviously biased

On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 11:46 AM, Jeff Newberry <jeff.newberry at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Any editors on the list wish to comment on this?
>
> Jeff
>
> On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 12:09 PM, <millb at aol.com> wrote:
>
> > I think, that a lot of magazines fear they will be overwhelmed by
> > submissions if they switch to online.  Also, my guess is that, even with
> > online submissions, editors will STILL print out and distribute the work via
> > hard copy paper, so, the burden is with the editors or student assistants to
> > print out submissions for round table discussion.  At least these are the
> > concerns I have heard about.
> >
> > Mill
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: TheOldMole <Opus40-01 at opus40.org>
> > Sent: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 8:53 am
> > Subject: [New-Poetry] Electronic Submissions
> >
> > Just got a rejection note from Crazyhorse, which was odd since I haven't
> > submitted anything to them in a couple of years, but that's not what I'm
> > writing about. Also on the note was the information that they are going
> > toward an all-email policy for submissions.
> >
> > >From their website:
> >
> > Please consider submitting your manuscript online rather than mailing
> > it. Submitting a manuscript online eliminates paper and postage costs, logs
> > the receipt of your manuscript automatically, and allows you to withdraw or
> > replace a manuscript as you wish.
> >
> > Why aren't more magazines doing this, and doing it for those exact
> > reasons?
> >
> > -- Tad Richards
> > http://www.opus40.org/tadrichards/
> > http://opusforty.blogspot.com/
> >
> > The moral is this: in American verse,
> > The better you are, the pay is worse.
> >  --Corey Ford
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