[Jewelry making - Article 01098] - Re: [Orchid] Experience with Bestofartists.com?

[Andrew Werby]

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>     Has anyone had any experience with this publication? Apparently
>     they 'juried' people from the Internet, and then invited them to
>     submit three pictures and $30.00, with a guarantee of getting at
>     least one picture into the book 

    I don't know, Sandra. Are you sure you want to be "excepted" in this
    publication, given the level of their language skills? 

    (From the "Welcome" page) 

          NOW EXCEPTING ARTISTS FOR OUR BEST OF online competition,
          Artists can submit 3 images of their work to be judged by
          visitors to the best of artists website. The artist with the
          most votes will win a publishing contract for a twenty page
          book through Kennedy Publishing! Artists submit to
          bestofexhibit AT yahoo.com submissions excepted through June 1st
          2006. Voting will run through August 1st 2006.
          www.kennedypublishing.biz.

    I didn't see any guarantee on the site that you'd get any picture in
    a book unless you were a "winner", or that you'd get a refund if you
    didn't win. Was that in the entry form available by request only?
    There was also nothing about the number of books that were actually
    going to be printed, and no distribution arrangement except a vague
    plan to offer them in some (unnamed) art museum bookshops. I did
    notice that they planned to send copies to some (unspecified)
    galleries "in online form", which indicates that there won't be too
    many of them. These days, you can print books in editions as small
    as one each, and then print on demand. That might be what is intended
    here. 

    The "winning" artists on the site appear as names only; there's no
    link to images when one clicks their names, although they do promise
    "Preview pages comming soon". And even if you "win", that doesn't get
    you a free copy of the book, just a $6 discount on one copy. It seems
    like they're hoping for multiple sales at full price to participating
    artists for their families and friends. To me, this looks like a way
    to separate a lot of hopeful artists from $30 each or more, which can
    add up to a tidy sum if it's done on a national scale. I don't have
    any direct experience with this venture, but I have been scammed
    before, and this gives off a familiar odor... 

Andrew Werby
www.computersculpture.com
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