Thanks to everyone for your feedback on this subject.
We have posted a new topic that answers the questions and comments brought up in this thread. You can find it here:
We have received several nasty e-mails from very upset people lately that were rejected for the upcoming book. We have seen a bunch of discussion on the message board about it as well. We thought it would be good to ask everyone if perhaps we overlooked something and that some of you have a solution to our problem. Here's our delema...
700 artists want to be in the book and are willing to pay for it. 680 of these artists are very talented and deserve to be in the book. However, we only have room for 200. We will have to reject hundreds of talented people, including many paying members of our site.
If this was your website, how would you fix this problem and make everyone happy?
Perhaps one of you has a solution that we are missing. Please let us know...