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Re: Robots: Behind the Design Who is submitting?

I don't know if we'll have time to put together a submission.

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Originally Posted by bcieslak View Post
You mean their going make $39 a book after they charge us six grand or more to take part in the competition?
Why not give us free food at competitions? Why not put $39 more in materials in the kit? Why not make Championship free?

There is nothing wrong with selling a book.

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Magazines like SERVO and ROBOT are always looking for good robotics articles and will actually pay you very well if they like what you submitted.

Check out their websites for author guidelines.

Why give all your hard work away for free? Think twice before signing away your publishing rights.
This book will provide publicity to more teams. Perhaps more teams will see the book than see the magazine, or this book will reach a different audience. It would be nice to have a section about our robot in a nice, hardcover book after we put so much work into the robot. Why not make a submission for the book AND write an article for a magazine?
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