If only subscribers were eligible to enter or win the contest, that would be fine. What bothers me a bit is that everyone can enter, but they are not treating everyone equally when it comes to handing out prizes. That's paying different people different salaries for performing the same job and filling the same space in the magazine. It's a lot of work to come up with a worthy entry, and the magazine benefits from having top-notch work to publish, and if some people who enter don't particularly care for the rest of the magazine, or if they like it but read it at work or in the library, that should be irrelevant.
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