Wattpad WEBTOON Studios and Leone Film Group announce two new film and TV adaptations from Wattpad
While caution is advised when hearing of “26 million reads” or whatever (a...
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Category: Digital-Reading Initiatives
UK – The Pigeonhole up for acquisition. Pre-publication serialisation “unsustainable”
“Serialised, social and interactive.” “Unsustainable as a standalone enterprise” is how the...
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Sweden – Nextory adds news and mags to its platform. “A completely natural step”
The venture, Nytell says, “is a completely natural step for us.” Which is of course...
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The parallel publishing universe that is online reading continues its exponential rise as mainstream western publishing looks the other way
Add the 70 million readers on Pratilip, the 49 million for China Literature outside China and the...
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Byju’s acquires children’s reading platform Epic for $500 million in another seismic shift in the publishing landscape
Overseas capital continues to flood the North America publishing market, entering key digital...
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Wattpad Brand Originals launched as 45% of Wattpad’s Gen Z users say they do not watch traditional TV. Publishers, keep up
For Millennials and Gen Zers … subscription isn’t the New Normal. It’s just normal. Baby-Boomers,...
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NABU digital reading app launches in Kenya with free content in English and Kiswahili
“Building a bridge to equality, one mother tongue at a time.” Based in New York and with offices...
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Sheikh Zayed Book Award hosts seminar exploring digital publishing and the “the never-before-seen emergence of ‘subscription culture’ in the Arab world”
Titled “Building a Digital Ecosystem for Knowledge”, the seminar was moderated by Saeed Hamdan Al...
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Video game becomes part of Poland’s official school reading list as the definition of books and reading blurs
For the purists among us who think that a book isn’t a book unless it was written by hand with a...
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OverDrive’s reading app Sora, in 23,000 schools globally, almost doubled student reading time in 2019
The secret sauce of the Sora children’s reading app from OverDrive is that is doesn’t just...
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Rakuten OverDrive’s Sora reading app wins 2019 Academics’ Choice Smart Media Award
OverDrive’s Sora app will be no stranger to regular readers here at TNPS. Back in August we...
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Digital books streaming service YouScribe on target for 300k subscribers by end 2019. Equals Storytel’s non-Nordic reach in first year – in Africa
When we think of digital books subscription services it’s easy to lose sight of the bigger picture...
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