Online Literature

Yet another well-established author has launched an imprint under an existing company—this time with Wattpad.

Earlier this year, Netflix boasted that half of the top 10 titles featured on the New York Times bestseller list were Netflix adaptations,

An exuberant market for online literature leads to investment in Inkitt’s serial fiction app, Galatea

Paranormal romance is an increasingly versatile subgenre, encompassing mystery/thriller/suspense and urban fantasy with both supernatural and romance plot elements.

A poetry editor, Danielle Rose, tweeted on Sept. 3, “I wish poets understood that the general population has no interest in what we do.

Audiobook retailer Libro.fm now works with businesses to offer curated collections of digital audiobooks to employees

Just before the Labor Day holiday weekend, news arrived that Salman Rushdie had signed a one-year contract with Substack to serialize his unpublished novella.

The Rights Factory, a literary agency, has just launched a new agency-wide podcast, Agent Provocateur, “to intrigue, entertain, and yes, provoke you.”

Open Road Media, known for its digital marketing strength as well as its own backlist publishing program for ebooks, has acquired UK ebook publisher Bloodhound Books.

Educational publisher Pearson announced in July it’s launching an app giving US students access to all of its 1,500 titles.

A popular music technology and instrument retailer, Sweetwater, has announced the launch of Sweetwater Publishing.

The US-based all-you-can-eat digital subscription service says it’s been profitable since 2017 and brings in about $100 million in annual recurring revenue.

it makes sense that the studio arms of both companies have been merged into a single division known as Wattpad Webtoon Studios.

Last week, Substack, the email newsletter platform, announced that it was paying an advance to author and entertainment writer Zack O’Malley Greenburg to serialize a book, We Are All Musicians Now

What would happen if you crossed Medium with cryptocurrency? That’s how people are explaining Mirror. The one-year-old startup is now valued at $100 million

OverDrive, the leading digital reading platform for libraries, acquired Kanopy, a video streaming service, which includes 30.000 films.

The ease of being able to deliver the event from the convenience and comfort of home remains a primary advantage.

When Kindle Vella, a platform for serialized fiction, was first announced in the spring, Amazon’s content guidelines stipulated that serial work published through Vella could not be published.

As exponential growth in audio inevitably slows, publishers will have to vie for market share with other content providers and services

Bookwire currently offers ebook and audiobook distribution services in Germany, Brazil, Mexico, and the UK—with a catalog of a half million ebooks

Journalist Kirk McElhearn interviews writers about how they use Scrivener, a popular app for book writing.

As the creator economy heats up, Curious Fictions, a site designed in 2017 for authors of short fiction, quietly chugs away in the background.

Booktopia has purchased Brio Books, a publisher of mainstream fiction and nonfiction as well as self-published titles.

W by Wattpad Books will publish new adult fiction, all based on stories that originated on the Wattpad platform. Wattpad started publishing YA novels in 2019.

Kakao Entertainment, based in Seoul, has acquired two serialized storytelling apps: Radish and Tapas.