ONLINE LITERARY JOURNAL SURVEY


Hello again, Editors of Online Literary Journals,

Many of you replied to our original survey, noting that the majority of questions did not really pertain to your work. Fear not! Steve and I had always planned a separate survey specifically for on-line journals. It truly is our intention to work with your journals just as hard as we plan to with print journals and to that end you will find below our second survey aimed at you on-line editors. There will be a question or two dealing with the possibility of moving from online to print – this is due to a couple of you specifically asking if we had anything planned for helping out in such scenarios, and not because we believe that any of you need to go that route.

For our joint efforts to succeed in the future, we believe getting as much information about things that have been successful, and unsuccessful, in the past for as many journals as possible is imperative. With this in mind, we have come up with the following questions that we’d like journals interested in participating with Dzanc to respond to, helping us to confirm and develop our theories.

A reminder – Dzanc has no interest in influencing any of the editorial decisions of your journals. We only want to help journals succeed in achieving your mission, and hopefully relieve some of the stresses that go with doing so. All of our services to literary journals are 100% free, provided as part of our ongoing commitment to bring greater exposure of fantastic writing to the public.

The responses you send to us will be absorbed into a database. The database as a whole, averages, or trends may be shared with those who participate, but no individual responses will be seen by anybody beyond you, or Steve and Dan of Dzanc Books.

1. What is your planned schedule of publishing issues?


2. When you miss your planned schedules, what are the top three reasons?


3. Do you track the number of visitors/readers to your site?


4. If yes, by what method?


5. If yes, what exactly are you tracking?
(Number of readers? Number of pieces read? Individual visitors vs. total visitor?)


6. How much does the annual operation of your journal cost?


7. Do you have any advertising on your site/journal to help defray such costs?


8. Do you advertise your journal anywhere? Have any costs for such advertising been included in the response above regarding annual costs?


9. Do you keep track of sites that your journal is linked to?


10. Do you promote your journal with literary blogs or other literary based websites?


11. Do you have a mailing list to which you send notices when new issues are posted online?


12. If you are tracking visitors, do you notice a large spike when you post new work, or is the visiting consistent from day to day?


13. How many more visitors per issue are you seeing than you had in 2005?


14. Does your journal run any contests? If not, has the idea been under consideration at all?


15. Has your journal done any readings? Just two to four of your authors at a reading series for a night?


16. Do you pay your writers? If not, and it were within your budget to do so, would you prefer to pay your writers?


17. What (if any) awards has your journal won, or been nominated for?


18. Does your journal have any affiliation with any universities or other organizations?


19. Does your journal have non-profit status?

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