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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Category: Digital-Reading Initiatives
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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Publish MENA – the digital advantage #4 is hitting inboxes this weekend
The joint StreetLib-TNPS bi-weekly newsletter Publish MENA – the digital...
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Asia Foundation launches Let’s Read Project in Myanmar
Let’s Read is an initiative by the Asia Foundation to bring the joy of reading to children across...
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