[SKRIVA] Asimov's SF Mag tar nu E-manus
- From: Ahrvid Engholm <ahrvid@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <skriva@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 3 May 2010 12:39:15 +0200
Från Locus:
"Asimov’s Accepts Electronic Submissions
— posted Friday 30 April 2010 @ 10:32 am PDT
Asimov’s editor Sheila Williams has announced the magazine will now accept
electronic submissions through a new form at the Asimov’s website. Manuscript
guidelines, available online, should be consulted first. Authors who have
already submitted a print copy of their story should not resubmit
electronically."
På en annan site finns en intervju med magasinets redaktör Sheila Williams om
att man nu anslutit sig till 2000-talet:
http://www.sfsignal.com/archives/2010/04/exclusive-interview-sheila-williams/
"I spend much of my working day writing, editing, and doing production work on
a laptop. Large-scale reading on a backlit computer screen has never appealed
to me. I've appreciated many aspects of an electronic submission system for
sometime, though. I purchased a large-sized reader last summer with the hope
that it would offer me some of the advantages of reading a book or a magazine
without giving me the added eyestrain of a computer. My electronic reader has
been a complete joy. I can carry around my newspaper, back issue of Asimov's,
the New Yorker, Shakespeare, Sherlock Holmes, Thucydidies, and The Windup Girl,
and read any one of them whenever I feel like it. I've already experimented
with a few manuscripts and have found that they are easy to read and to take
notes on.
I've also been concerned about international submissions for a while. In
addition to the high costs and the difficulties authors encounter when they try
to find international reply coupons or U.S. postage, the mail service isn't
completely reliable -- I never received Gord Sellar's first submission and
Somtow Sucharitkul has had to express-mail material to me from Thailand. I've
even found that parts of Canada can be difficult to reach by mail. I've already
been beta testing the new system with a number of authors living outside the US
and I've been delighted with the ease with which the system works.
...
We're open to electronic submissions beginning today, April 30th. Our
submission form is online at http://asimovs.magazinesubmissions.com/index.php.
It was designed specifically for us by Neil Clarke, and I owe him a huge debt
of gratitude. Authors should check out the guidelines on our website:
www.asimovs.com for more information on how to submit stories and poems.
...
Asimov's is currently selling close to four thousand copies of the magazine
each month on the Kindle. We're continuing to see growth in this area. Print
sales have been holding steady, both on the newsstand and with submissions."
Asimov's kommer f ö snart att utge en antologi, som bara kommer att finnas
tillgänglig elektroniskt. Titel: Enter The Future - Fantastic Tales From
Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine. Redaktören fårn en slutfråga i intervjun:
"In your opinion, where is genre publishing headed?
SW: It's never easy to declare exactly where genre publishing is heading. As
soon as you jump up and make a statement, it seems to veer off in a completely
new direction. A lot of people read short stories online, but as more people
become comfortable with electronic readers we will probably see an increase in
electronic editions of magazines that are created for and distributed via these
readers."
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