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]]>There's gotta be something about the law of unintended consequences in all this.
]]>I think you should buy a membership because A) you want to support the Worldcon, or B) you want to vote on the Hugos. When you do it simply to get a bunch of cheap stuff to read, I think we have a problem. I think it may well skew the voting, and not necessarily in good way.
Now call me a curmudgeon if you want, but the last time I voted on the Hugos, you had to track down all the works on your own. So everyone who was voting had to care--at least about the con, if not the works--or they wouldn't have purchased voting rights. And yes, I left out at least one short fiction category from my vote, because I hadn't read enough of the entries, so I totally get the purpose of the voting packet. But the voting packet is supposed to let you be an informed voter! It's not supposed to be an incentive. And that's where things get tricky.
I don't want to bring in any slippery slope argument, but let's just say that I can see why publishers might be concerned about the direction things are going. And while I definitely think it was a dick move to do it this late in the process, I ... well, as I said at the beginning I have mixed feelings. And I'm not really sure I see an ideal solution.
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