mfitzerald

This sounds snarky but isn't my intent: your weak point is selling, which is different than networking or connecting with people.

This is huge. Congratulations!

"..with the kinds of friends the book has, it needs no enemies.." A great read by Richard Nash, who in the 90's founded and built one of the seminal indie presses, Soft Skull. Would be great if he pushed this toward a book. No one else is writing about the history or future of publishing with such a depth of knowledge.

Also, loved the Vonnegut excerpt: "The entire planet can get along nicely now with maybe a dozen champion performers in each area of human giftedness."

Thanks for posting the story.

Hi. This is Michael (Submittable). I've been on a plane today. Just seeing this. But this answer is spot on. We came from a publishing background where publishers have an over-supply of content-see Clay Shirky's Congnitive Surplus for more on this- and they needed a simple way to accept and curate incoming work. Submittable was originally a tool for that, but has since branched out to accept and curate any kind of digital object: manuscripts, film, audio, images, links, applications, resumes, anything coming in that needs to be reviewed and acted on.