Subs
I was startled to learn from a comment posted at the Sci Fiction message boards in March that Ellen receives only about 150 submissions a month. I'm also startled to see in the new SH interview with GVG that F&SF receives about 600 a month. I guess I just figured that all the high-profile prozines got about a thousand a month.
We're still getting a bit over 200 submissions a month. But we can only buy about four stories a month, and Gordon says he buys about eight.
I find it a little odd that Gordon doesn't mention JJA, his slush reader, in that interview's discussion of reading slush. In fact, it seems to me that the prozine editors in general tend to shy away from mentioning their slush readers. I wonder if that's to protect the slush readers' privacy—but at least two slush readers for prozines hang out semi-regularly at the Rumor Mill, under their own names.