The Casket of Fictional Delights has been running for five years and is looking to the future.  Up till now it has been a totally free service but I have to consider possible ways of recouping some of the costs. I have considered advertising but really don’t want to go down this route as it would spoil the website.  There has been a ’Donate’ Button on the site for a couple of year and to date it has raised £35, which doesn’t even cover one audio podcast.

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Please spare a few minutes to complete this survey to help me work out what to do next. It will only take a few minutes to complete.
Thank you.

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* 1.  Would you be prepared to pay to submit a short story or flash fiction to The Casket of Fictional Delights?

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* 2. If you answered yes to Q1 how much would you be prepared to pay to submit a Short Story?

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* 3. If you answered yes to Q1 how much would you be prepared to pay to submit a Flash Fiction?

One of the unique offerings of The Casket of Fictional Delights is our ability to provide audio podcasts (Storycasts) which we have done from the beginning.  These are costly to produce to a high professional standard, an average podcast costs £100.

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* 4. Would you be prepared to contribute towards the cost of producing your short story as an audio podcast if your story was published on The Casket of Fictional Delights?

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* 5. If you answered Yes to Q4 how much would you be prepared to contribute?

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* 6. Would be prepared to contribute more if your story required a specialist voice (accent) or was particularly long?

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* 7. Would you think it unreasonable to be asked to pay both to submit a story and to contribute to the cost of audio production after your story has been accepted for publication?

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* 8. Would you be interested in using our professional audio podcast service to have your own stories that are NOT published on The Casket of Fictional Delights recorded paying the full commercial rate (£100-£150).

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* 9. There is an expectation that ‘everything on the web nowadays is FREE’ - Should The Casket of Fictional Delights charge readers to read your work?

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* 10. Are there any comments you would like to make in relation to your answers above?

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* 11. Are there any other ways The Casket of Fictional Delights could raise money to help fund ongoing costs?

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* 12. Any other comments or suggestions about The Casket of Fictional Delights?

Thank you so much for taking the time to complete this survey.  I look forward to reading many more stories. 

 
Joanna

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