Naver's $600 million buy-out of Wattpad should be a wake-up call for western publishers who still don’t "get" online reading - The New Publishing Standard

Naver’s $600 million buy-out of Wattpad should be a wake-up call for western publishers who still don’t “get” online reading

Underestimate the significance of this deal at your peril. This is another seismic shift that will go largely unnoticed and unremarked for now, but will send ripples across the global publishing arena for years to come. Print? Check. Ebooks? Check. Audiobooks? Check. Podcasts? We’re getting there. Online reading? As in Wattpad? Be serious. That’s for … Continue reading Naver’s $600 million buy-out of Wattpad should be a wake-up call for western publishers who still don’t “get” online reading