From SFWA's warnings & cautions for writers:
[font=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif][size=-1]Offering writers a choice of providing a large number of manuscript copies at their own expense, or paying an upfront "marketing" fee.[/size][/font][font=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif][size=-1] The idea here is that copying is so expensive that the fee looks like a bargain. Agents don't usually need large numbers of ms. copies anyway--most agents ask for just one or two.
Hell, I didn't even get the fee option. I was told that APOY would make a number of copies, but after that I would have to send them myself. Again, this is why I stopped sending material to my own damned agent: I couldn't afford to go to Kinko's every week and get groceries.
The guy didn't even finish the term! I contacted him to see if he was up for another year (yeah, I'm that naive), and he said he was sick and couldn't stay in the business any longer. I checked a recent Writer's Market, and he's no longer in there.
Someone call Harvey Birdman!
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