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Duotrope Listing
- Thread starter Jay Dougherty
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Anyone used Duotrope? This is a note I just sent to my contact there:
Thanks.
Your service is new to me, and I'm trying to understand where it fits in. At first glance, it seems that what you're providing is essentially a directory, a la the old Directory of Little Magazines and Small Presses (forgot the exact title). Was a great resource in the print era.
Now, though, what this industry needs is a viable competitor to Submittable, the prices of which have become simply outrageous. Does Duotrope have plans to enter the submission market?
Given the now high cost of Submittable, I fear that the concern users of your service will have is that they must (1) pay to access your listings and then (2) pay to submit to many of the journals, which must charge users in order to recoup the ever-escalating prices of Submittable.
Thanks.
Your service is new to me, and I'm trying to understand where it fits in. At first glance, it seems that what you're providing is essentially a directory, a la the old Directory of Little Magazines and Small Presses (forgot the exact title). Was a great resource in the print era.
Now, though, what this industry needs is a viable competitor to Submittable, the prices of which have become simply outrageous. Does Duotrope have plans to enter the submission market?
Given the now high cost of Submittable, I fear that the concern users of your service will have is that they must (1) pay to access your listings and then (2) pay to submit to many of the journals, which must charge users in order to recoup the ever-escalating prices of Submittable.
Perle Besserman
New Member
Have found duotrope hard to access for submissions. Submittable has always been easy. It wasn’t corporatized until it gave up being “Submishmash”, and then got too big for its boots, as it were.
Suggestion: instead of paying higher Submittable fees out of pocket, why not have members of OF chip in as much as they can afford to help you. Other mags have a Donate squib in order to defray costs.
Suggestion: instead of paying higher Submittable fees out of pocket, why not have members of OF chip in as much as they can afford to help you. Other mags have a Donate squib in order to defray costs.
Thanks, Perle. The loss of Submittable is regrettable, to me, at least, for a lot of the notable new talent that we've seen has come by way of Submittable. But the fee is now beyond the pale, I think--rising over 100 percent from last year to this. In addition, I'm galled at how they tried to couch the price hike in marketing speak. Maybe I'll get over that.
To your point, though, I don't think the membership here cares enough about Submittable to pitch in for a subscription, and even if they did, I just don't feel right in asking them to support Submittable's price hike.
Interesting:
https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/13/submittable-series-a/
They started w/ poetry mags. Now they're pricing them out.
https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/13/submittable-series-a/
They started w/ poetry mags. Now they're pricing them out.