Online Literature

In July 2025, I talked with Seth Ring (WildCard) about his experience on Royal Road. Here are highlights from our conversation.

In July 2025, I talked with Noret Flood (puddles4263) about his experience with Royal Road. Here are highlights from our conversation.

Royal Road has been quietly creating an established path for SFF authors to launch profitable writing careers.

Crazy Maple Studio, creator of the streaming platform ReelShort, is launching a publishing division for books inspired by short videos.

Kindle Vella, Amazon’s in-house attempt to build a serialization platform for authors, is shutting down after not even four years

The founders don’t describe 831 Stories as a publisher. Rather, it’s “an entertainment company with books at the foundation.”

Webtoon’s filing to become a publicly traded company reveals some interesting stats about their platform.

In a word: romance. Stories are highly dramatic, romantic, sexually explicit and frequently feature werewolves, aliens, and cryptids.

Children’s author Darcy Pattison, who runs Mims House Books, responded to our article on publisher-library relationships.

Hypnovels is an AI-driven digital platform that authors and publishers can use to transform their books into animations.

Draft2Digital has entered into a retail distribution agreement with Fable, the social reading app that powers online book clubs.

It recently announced that readers can now engage with some titles through an AI chat model that’s been trained on the full text of the book.

Publisher Legend Times is launching a new digital-first romance imprint, Serendipity.

On Jan. 23, the Tor.com online magazine will rebrand to Reactor.

Wattpad Premium subscribers (who pay $5/month) will get access to five curated Wattpad Originals for free on the first day of each month.

Startup company Dashtoon uses generative AI to help anyone become a comics artist, even if they can’t draw.

Last week, Wattpad announced a new model known as Wattpad Originals for readers to enjoy paid stories published on their platform.

The imprint will publish a mix of re-issues and new publications starting in October 2023.

Authors who distribute their ebooks through StreetLib now have access to 44 online audiobook platforms.

Authors can now plan and schedule when new chapters go live at Wattpad.

Wattpad announced that its creators program, which has been limited in scale, will be open to more writers and offer equal benefits to all.

SFF publisher Orbit (a division of Hachette) has announced Orbit Works, a new imprint that will publish ebooks and audiobooks.

Kobo Plus is extending service into the UK and the US, and Draft2Digital has now added Kobo Plus to its standard Kobo distribution.

Kobo Plus is so far available in Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, Italy, Netherlands, New Zealand, Portugal, the UK, and the US.

K Manga is a new app launching in May that will include 400 titles and early access to new chapters from Kodansha’s most popular series.