Personanondata: Who do these 'Literary' Competitions help?

Monday, October 01, 2007

Who do these 'Literary' Competitions help?

Yet more competitions to seek new publishing works. Why, I don't know. This seems a dopey way to generate product IMHO. But then, that's probably not the point just like finding The Next Top Model is about modelling.

News on Borders/CourtTV/Gather.com and Amazon.com/Penguin/HP.

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