Yes, another reason that we made the Ursa Majors a popular vote award was that it was felt that creating a panel of judges would possibly create a serious financial burden on those judges, if they had to buy every nominated book and magazine to read the nominated stories. It was not realized when the award was created that so many nominees would be posted for free on the Internet.
Yes, another reason that we made the Ursa Majors a popular vote award was that it was felt that creating a panel of judges would possibly create a serious financial burden on those judges, if they had to buy every nominated book and magazine to read the nominated stories. It was not realized when the award was created that so many nominees would be posted for free on the Internet.
Fred Patten