Links of Interest: April 12, 2023
The latest in trends, bookselling, audio, culture & politics, and serialization.
The latest in trends, bookselling, audio, culture & politics, and serialization.
Wattpad–Webtoon’s new serialization app, Yonder, has announced another round of publishing partners
In our last issue, you might recall our write-up of Yonder, a new serialized literature app from the Wattpad–Webtoon family.
Executives from Wattpad Webtoon Studios and Rakuten Kobo discuss the hard-to-measure but growing audience for independently published ebooks and digital serializations.
Yonder will attempt to reach a more diverse audience by serializing multiple genres, including some publishers’ backlist.
Authors contributing to Vella hope Amazon will use its marketing power to boost its new serial reading platform.
Launched in 2015, Serial Box publishes serialized stories produced by teams of writers in written and audio form.
The platform for serialized fiction may not yet offer contract terms that appeal to savvy writers in English-language markets.
The platform offers a strong monetization model for serials, but writers lack control over pricing
An overview of chat-based story apps.