PublishersLink

Project Description:

PublishersLink is an online platform to simplify an outdated process that has become indispensable to the entire publishing industry. The main goal with PublishersLink is to use modern technology to help the submission process for the literary community; saving time, energy, and money for publishers and literary agents while also helping to get writers published. We will create a centralized, searchable, online submissions database, that is easily accessible by both writers and agents/publishers as well as an option for agents to connect with publishers via chat.

The current procedure an author must go through to have their work published is very time consuming, tedious, and yields little success for most authors. If we compared PublishersLink to the real estate market, writers would be the house sellers that pay a fee to use the service, literary agents are the real estate brokers, and publishers are buyers. PublishersLink is the MLS® system that connects them all. PublishersLink does not prevent writers from submitting their work to individual publishers and agents just as house sellers can still choose a “for sale by owner” option; however, the platform will provide a more efficient way to improve the chances of authors selling their work and getting published. To incentivize writers and agents to use the service, agents will be able to access their own submissions that writers will submit to them directly at no cost, agents will be provided with a free basic submissions platform to effectively manage their workload. Writers will also have the option of submitting their work to the wider pool of agents at a cost.

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