Franklin returned the Sony Reader, for ebooks, he was given by Random House, preferring to read submissions on paper, and while he thinks Apple and its competitors will "probably conquer the world eventually", for the moment he is more worried about how to keep bookshops afloat.
The 95-year old competition has long been known for requiring journalists to build a "scrapbook" or "portfolio," compiled of submissions on paper.
The contest requires that all submissions are made on paper or canvas with watercolor, pencil, pastel, charcoal, tempera, crayon, acrylic, pen-and-ink or oil (digital art and photography are not yet accepted).
The new entry system ends the submission of entries on paper, typically in the form of a scrapbook, a practice dating to the start of the prizes 95 years ago.
They prefer negotiated settlements and pretrial determinations by judges based only on paper submissions.
They say Judge Vaughn R. Walker, the chief judge of the Federal District Court in San Francisco, made a serious mistake by calling for a trial in a challenge to California's ban on same-sex marriage rather than deciding the case based on paper submissions.
On the literary blog HTML Giant, Taylor and his co-editor Eva Talmadge are soliciting digital-image submissions for their proposed print-on-paper album, which they plan to call "The Rest is Silence: Literary Tattoos From Bookworms Worldwide".
I compare two possible extreme hypotheses regarding submission of papers to journals: the Q hypothesis, whereby the decision to submit is based on quality of research; and the P hypothesis, whereby it is based on probability of acceptance.
(Paper withdrawal, embargo on paper submission etc).
With regard to sanctions or obligations imposed on those who contravene COI disclosure policy, such as enforced retraction, embargoes on paper submission, etc, only 27.3% of journals had a regulation system in place.
"If she decides to do so", they said later, they would "then decide whether to re-open the appeal and accept further submissions (either verbally through a further hearing, or on paper) on the matter".
