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> I'm not familiar with submitting artwork for someone else's book. So, I 
> don't know if it is common practice to ask the author of some artwork to 
> pay for inclusion of his work in a book. I always thought *I'd* get paid 
> royalties if someone wanted to use my work... But all things being equal, 
> it's crying out "scam" to me. I don't have anything that's even remotely 
> worthy of being published, but I wouldn't pay for it if I had.

I think that they just want to keep out as much joke/subpar/noise entries as 
possible. Renderosity has a huge following and this contest covers a lot of 
ground, from digital photography to 3D. It could become swamped in thousands 
of totally useless pictures (family pics, "my first rendering", goatse, 
class assignments etc.). Putting a minimal entry fee is probably the only 
way to make sure that the entrants are serious about the contest, i.e. that 
they actually believe that their work belong to such a book.

G.

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