Now, back to the actual issue at hand :) Dee-Marie, I at least, and I do not think anyone else is either, am NOT implying that this new form of magazine won't be great stuff, of the highest quality, and highly desirable :) I am sure it will, since our community has some of the greatest artists who have ever lived in it, bar none. True masters :) What I think you are missing that many are trying to bring to the fore is this: 1) Why not pay the authors, since this "magazine" is a paid subscription and not free? Why ask the authors to give away their content for "fame" when the magazine itself makes money? 2) Since it is the plan to not pay authors, then why restrict their rights to sell their work to someone who will pay for so long? That is all we are asking? :) You see... just like most of the artists here, I am a "starving" artist too. I am just so glad I did get paid from 3d World Mag, or as you have aptly guessed, my own ability to give personal gifts to my family would have been incredibly limited, due to being disabled. (Well, actually I am very lucky, Russell would have bought my presents for me, but I love it that I got to spend my own money I earned myself to do it :) ) Lots of the artists here who are the very best, are also disabled and need a way to make a little money or they too won't have a nice christmas. So being paid for your work if it is good enough to get published is such a nice thing for the artist, both fame wise, and financially. So why not pay the artists? Or else let them try to sell the article to someone who will pay? Why hold them back to this 90 days exclusive thing and not pay? That is all we are asking :)