Journals have withdrawn papers because authors released information to the public beforehand.
The costs of running journals are low because authors and reviewers are generally not paid.
Amazon is clearly aware of the scam, because authors who accidentally encourage similar behaviour have found themselves banned.
This poses little risk to critics, she claims, because authors do such a poor job of defending themselves.
Because authors are finite creatures and stop writing and fall off their perches, these rebootings can satisfy readers' needs.
Because authors of children's fiction are "reluctant to depict the extinction of hope within their stories," Sambell writes, they equivocate when it comes to delivering a moral.
"We now have the opportunity to capture this information exchange, but I'm very concerned that we will lose it because authors do not realize its significance".
Politicising the Hugos to such a degree certainly doesn't help the nominees themselves, because authors on his slate risk being informally blacklisted by the rest of the community.
At one point, the solicitor general said that if the government lost the case, librarians would soon be spending their money on lawyers rather than on books, because authors would start suits to demand that their books be acquired.
Established in 1967, the Guardian children's fiction prize is unique in that it is the only children's prize to be judged by writers, and because authors are only able to win the prize once.
