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Post by downtown on Jun 12, 2019 20:18:07 GMT
I see the Prolific Works mothership is launching a new platform for beta readers. I wonder if they're powering down Prolific Works. I haven't seen any updates to that platform in a long time, and you always got the feeling that giveaways/ARC platforms (in their current incarnation at least) were on their way out.
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Post by writeway on Jun 14, 2019 1:56:50 GMT
I have no idea but wouldn't be surprised. I haven't been to Prolific Works since they changed from Instafreebie. They have a lot more competition now. When IF started there weren't many places that did giveaways and ARCs and now you have Book Funnel, Booksprout, Story Orgin, etc. Also, I assume Prolific Works lost a lot of authors because many said the name change turned them off so they wouldn't be using it anymore. That could also be a reason why things are changing. If they aren't getting the amount of users anymore, that's a big thing.
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Post by downtown on Jun 14, 2019 19:56:40 GMT
I have no idea but wouldn't be surprised. I haven't been to Prolific Works since they changed from Instafreebie. If they aren't getting the amount of users anymore, that's a big thing. Yeah, I'm the same way. Haven't really been paying attention to it, and then went in the other day and it seems incredibly quiet compared to its competitors, both in terms of product improvement and actual giveaway/author activity.
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Post by writeway on Jun 16, 2019 3:36:44 GMT
I think it hurt their brand more than they realized to change their name like that. Instafreebie was a popular brand readers and authors had gotten used to and when they just up and changed the name and how it worked it wasn't the same anymore. Same thing happened to Thunderclap. They changed their name and were sold to someone else and I haven't heard from them since.
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Post by downtown on Jun 16, 2019 5:48:35 GMT
That's really interesting. Totally agree though, I thought the name change was really weird at the time. I assumed they were about to make some big moves and wanted to get rid of the word "freebie" in their name. But it doesn't seem like they've done a ton since then.
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Post by dormouse on Jun 16, 2019 17:43:13 GMT
Makes sense. My head has a concept of Instafreebie, but has to work to translate Prolific Works into something meaningful.
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Post by K'Sennia Visitor on Jun 18, 2019 3:05:18 GMT
It was months and months before I even knew what Prolific Works was - I kept getting their emails and deleting, wondering what the heck it was and how I got on their list. *haha*
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