diff --git a/IPython/nbconvert/exporters/export.py b/IPython/nbconvert/exporters/export.py
index b73957d..83d3bcf 100755
--- a/IPython/nbconvert/exporters/export.py
+++ b/IPython/nbconvert/exporters/export.py
@@ -224,12 +224,3 @@ def get_export_names():
     # filter out the one method that is not a template
     l = [x for x in l if 'by_name' not in x]
     return sorted(l)
-
-def get_exporters():
-    "Return a list of the currently supported export targets"
-    # grab everything after 'export_'
-    l = [x for x in __all__ if x.endswith('Exporter')]
-    g = globals()
-    # filter out the one method that is not a template
-    l = [g[x] for x in l if issubclass(g[x], Exporter)]
-    return sorted(l)
diff --git a/IPython/nbconvert/nbconvertapp.py b/IPython/nbconvert/nbconvertapp.py
index fac3ba3..71237cc 100755
--- a/IPython/nbconvert/nbconvertapp.py
+++ b/IPython/nbconvert/nbconvertapp.py
@@ -23,14 +23,12 @@ import glob
 
 #From IPython
 from IPython.core.application import BaseIPythonApplication, base_aliases, base_flags
-from IPython.config.application import catch_config_error
+from IPython.config import catch_config_error, Configurable
 from IPython.utils.traitlets import Unicode, List, Instance, DottedObjectName, Type
 from IPython.utils.importstring import import_item
 
-from .exporters.export import (
-    export_by_name, get_export_names, ExporterNameError, get_exporters
-)
-from .writers import FilesWriter, StdoutWriter
+from .exporters.export import export_by_name, get_export_names, ExporterNameError
+from IPython.nbconvert import exporters, transformers, writers
 from .utils.base import NbConvertBase
 
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -63,15 +61,13 @@ class NbConvertApp(BaseIPythonApplication):
     flags = nbconvert_flags
     
     def _classes_default(self):
-        classes = []
-        classes.extend(get_exporters())
-        classes.extend([FilesWriter, StdoutWriter])
-        
-        return [
-            Exporter,
-            WriterBase,
-            NbConvertBase,
-        ]
+        classes = [NbConvertBase]
+        for pkg in (exporters, transformers, writers):
+            for name in dir(pkg):
+                cls = getattr(pkg, name)
+                if isinstance(cls, type) and issubclass(cls, Configurable):
+                    classes.append(cls)
+        return classes
 
     description = Unicode(
         u"""This application is used to convert notebook files (*.ipynb).