“We know just how and where our audience is accessing content in today’s ever-changing landscape.”
Paraphrasing Jessica Cruel’s comment as Markus Dohle might have put it: “We know just...
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Category: Mobile publishing
Amazon finally enters the online reading field, but Kindle Vella looks to be a half-hearted effort rushed out to be a spoiler for China Lit’s North America push
Safe to say a lucky few authors will do very well from Kindle Vella, and Amazon will make a big...
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South Korea’s Kakao plans to buy Radish for $354 million. Another wake-up call for publishers who don’t “get” online reading
Radish has over 30 original series that together have delivered over 6,500 episodes, bringing in...
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Wattpad, “the world’s leading platform for writers”, plans second Canada HQ in Halifax
With its headquarters in Toronto and offices in London, Los Angeles, New York, Hong Kong, Mumbai,...
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Celebrating its first anniversary, Singapore’s mobile reading app Dreame is another example of the millions of invisible global digital readers outside mainstream publishing
“Show Your Girl Power” is the topic of to a writing competition to mark the successful...
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Wattpad’s 80 million users are part of the invisible and untapped global digital-first readership many publishers are oblivious to
Several industry reports carry the Wattpad press release announcing the Toronto-based company has...
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Lady Victoria Howard brings elegant erotica to smartphones, chapter by chapter, with a laser focus and global ambitions
Launched last month by LVH Group, a new mobile reading app has taken an unsuspecting world by...
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StreetLib partners with Singapore-based STARY's Dreame and FicFun mobile reading apps
Italy-based digital books distributor and publishing facilitator StreetLib has partnered...
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7 million users in the Philippines as Wattpad’s Tencent-backed Asia plans step up a gear
The Philippines has long been one of Wattpad’s strongholds, but this month comes news from Manila...
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HarperCollins India CEO – "Indians are reading more ebooks. We are seeing a steady increase in ebook sales"
It’s not something we hear said much nowadays. People are buying more ebooks. In India, that is....
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Harry Potter and the magic of Augmented Reality
Two big AR stories are making the news this week, both with consequences for the publishing...
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Wattpad insights
As reported here last week, the Chinese e-commerce titan Tencent is throwing $40 million at...
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