Monday, August 08, 2011

Market Research On Poetry? Really?

Isn’t it time someone did a little market research about poetry?

We thought so too.

The ways in which readers find new books of poetry have been changing for years. We’re working with the Literary Press Group, with support from the Ontario Arts Council, to try and learn more about how readers find and choose the books they read. Even better, we’d like to hear from readers about how they would like to be able to find books.

This link will take you to our survey. If you’re a poetry reader, we’d love to hear from you. The survey should take about 10 minutes to complete. If you wish, you can enter to win special prize packages of recent Canadian poetry titles. Please note the survey closes on Friday, August 19.

If you’re a blogger, editor, author, association member, or anyone else with an interest in helping to spread the word, we encourage you to pass the link along through a blog post, Twitter or Facebook post, or other mention. Please don’t hesitate to contact us at anytime for additional information or if there’s anything we can do to help out.

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thanks alot ..

I’m sure some purists are really against this! But it makes sense to me.

Nice. Actually though, I think it’s pretty easy how people find poetry books. If I know the author, I buy the book. If I don’t, then I read a couple of poems.