They want to discourage over-the-transom submissions and encourage you to use the agents who have set up to become an indispensible part of the filtering process (something that publishers used to prefer to do in-house, and which was part of the training process for employees). Cheaper for the publisher to make authors pay someone else a percentage to screen submissions, rather than pay enough in-house staff to read and turn things around.
I think writers do sim-sub. There's a reason the withdrawal-from-consideration letter exists. But I have no idea what goes on in those offices and suspect they are far less professional and organized than anyone would like to hope.
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Date: 2010-09-28 05:20 pm (UTC)I think writers do sim-sub. There's a reason the withdrawal-from-consideration letter exists. But I have no idea what goes on in those offices and suspect they are far less professional and organized than anyone would like to hope.