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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
The Sci-Fi Channel website paid for the fiction they put up, and the woman who served as the editor, Ellen Datlow, has a very high reputation in the field.
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This suggests something else we've discussed in other forums, namely, direct commercial support of an author, in much the same way advertisers subsidize television.
Without knowing what SciFi expected to "get" out of publishing the novel (more eyes for SFC, which would lead to more advertising revenue, I suppose... good luck tracking those numbers), I'd wonder why the novel was considered good enough for printing, but not for SciFi.com.
Still, they're a television station... not a publishing house, and other than advertising their own TV products, not much of a content website. It's therefore not that surprising if they just didn't "get it."
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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
There was a tempest in a teapot within SFWA (The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America) a while back about whether stories published on web sites counted as professional credits in qualifying for SFWA membership. There are an assortment of sites that publish SF short fiction, and pay contributors, so it should be a no-brainer, but we're talking about SFWA, who has often seemed confused about whether it is a trade organization or an exclusive little club.
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Yes, the SFWA is clearly in that "Castle" mentality, I've noticed: As long as we keep the barbarians out, the world will be better off (especially us).