Information Survey

(www.short-fiction.com)

The purpose of this survey is to collect information from you about your particular interest in order to provide the visitors, surfers, members and authors an enjoyable and informative internet experience on our site. We value your feedback and hope that it makes things better for all those visiting the website. The information that you give us is for our own use and is not nor will not be sold or shared by any means. The information is gathered, averaged and used for our product and site offerings as a market segment, not individually. 

We know that nothing is free, and your time is valuable, so, in an effort to express our gratitude for your valuable feedback, we have a little something to offer you in return. For all those who stop and fill this out with meaningful information, we will send the visitor a very cool little book mark or bumper sticker promoting short fiction. The bumper sticker, which you can place anywhere really, is a thought provoking phrase meant to entice the non-reader to, well, read! As far as the book marker, well that is just a little memento with the same phase.

This survey is divided into the following sections:

Fill out the information in each section as requested. Then, at the end of the form supply your name and contact information, and submit the form. You will receive a confirmation message from us shortly.

SECTION A -- Type of books and specific reading habits:

These questions hold the greatest value to us. The answers you give us here will determine what information we give to decision makers in the industry (publishers, professors, librarians and booksellers) when they ask us about the short fiction market in general.

  1. What is your favorite genre?



  2. How many books do you read per year:

    1-5  6-10  11-20  20+ books per year (authors love you!)

  3. We would like to send you your "have you read short fiction?" sticker and some literature. What is your mailing address? 
    Name     
Street   
City     
State    
Zip Code
  4. Where do you do most of your reading? i.e., the beach, in bed etc.



  5. Do you enjoy reading directly from your computer screen? yes  no
  6. Which method do you use to promote a book that you were pleased with?

    Pass along - keep it        Borrow and return it   Tell them they must buy 
    Leave copy behind         I don't share
  7. How do you choose or pick which book to buy next?

    Best seller list   Friend's referral      Clearance counter   From news article
    Advertisement  School assignment 


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SECTION B -- A little more specific feed back

Answer these questions to narrow our study and help evaluate ourselves and our offerings.

  1. How would you rate this web site?

    Bad Poor Fair Good Excellent

  2. What is your favorite color?



  3. Select the subject areas you are most interested in:

    Mystery
    Sci-Fi
    Literary
    Romance
    Western
    Horror
    Adult contemporary
    Erotica

  4. Are you a current member? If not, would you like to join? yes  no.

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SECTION C -- Additional reader survey subcategories:

You are almost finished. This area helps us determine where our visitors and members stand in relation to the average consumer. Would it surprise you to know that within the "average consumer" category he/she spends very little time reading for entertainment?

  1. Which of the following products do you currently own? 
    CD ROM     Journal    Home       Leather Bound Books
DVD        Library    Condo      Lap Top Computer
Scanner    Boat       Stationary Fountain Pen
  2. Please enter any additional comments regarding our web site, books in general or our services:



  3. Select a month from the following list, in which you do most of your shopping for books:



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FORM SUBMISSION

Thank you for taking the time to answer the questions in our survey.

While not everyone likes surveys, some, such as this one, helps us tailor our offerings to our members and visitors and allows us to provide useful general data about the reading public. Are the specific answers and names of this survey available to anyone, no. This is merely used to study the patterns of those who use our site. It is not psychological in any way. It is a means to gauge our current base of visitors and compare the results to those of a typical "reader" profile. The individual information garnished here will not be sold or leased to anyone else, it is for internal use only and may only be used as part of our general consensus reports to the industry. The mere fact that you are visiting is indicative of your interest, to find us meant you had perform a search based on words which only apply to reading and books. We narrow the visitor profile a little more to serve the short fiction market. Again, thank you for your time, and please come back again.



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