Experiences and thoughts on running an online literary publication

Online Literature

By Dominique Gerald M. Cimafranca villageidiotsavant.com

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Philippines License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ph/ or send a letter to Creative Commons, 171 Second Street, Suite 300, San Francisco, California, 94105, USA.

The Dagmay Experience

Dagmay: weekly publication of the Davao Writers Guild

2001: quarterly, then annual, literary journal2006: monthly literary supplement to Sun.Star Davao2007: weekly literary supplement to Sun.Star Davao

Online edition http://dagmay.kom.ph launched December 2008

Rotating editorship, online submissions

Some Figures

Over 370 poems, short stories, and essaysIn English, Bisaya, Tagalog, and other languages

Over 200 contributors, mostly young writers

Approx. 1,000 unique readers per month

Average 80 readers per day

60% of readers from Philippines,

23% from United States

3-5 submissions per week

Benefits

Minimal production costs, minimal distribution costs

International reach

Automatic archiving and organization

Reader feedbackPromotion: events activities, books

Identifying and developing new talent

Challenges

Generating Revenue – what else? ;-)

Increasing readership and reach

Quality and quantity of submissions

Editing

Technical issues site design, updating, backup, spam

In a world where anyone can

publish online, does a

mediated magazine still matter?

I think so.

Writer Reader

At its most basic

Writer ReaderPublisher DistributionWriter

Traditional publishing is more complicated, though...

Writer ReaderPublisher DistributionWriter

Editor

Marketing &

Promotion

Critics

...much more complicated...

Academe

Sponsors

$$$

In the online model...

Writer ReadersWeb Site /

BlogWriter

Sponsors

Promotion

Challenges for the self-publisher

Finding Readers

Creating Variety

Integrity

Growth

Generating RevenueCelebrity and sensationalism

Sustaining Readership

Maintaining Consistency

Being part of a community

Writing for readers...or search engines?

Writer ReaderWeb

PublisherWriter

Editor Critics

Mediated Online Publication

Academe

Sponsors

Promotion

“Art begins with resistance– at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.”

--André Gide

Writer Editor

Feedback

Selection

Correction

Collaboration

Growth

Validation

Verification

Future Plans

E-books compilations, anthologies, reprints of old

Additional revenue stream

Digital Preservation

Sponsorship local advertisting

Paying Market so we can pay our writers

Directory of writers and their works

Best of Dagmay as print publication

Experimental forms hyperfiction

Online literature in the Philippines

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Experiences and thoughts on running an online literary publication

Online Literature

By Dominique Gerald M. Cimafranca villageidiotsavant.com

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Philippines License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ph/ or send a letter to Creative Commons, 171 Second Street, Suite 300, San Francisco, California, 94105, USA.