Plympton, Inc.

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Plympton, Inc.
Parent company Plympton, Inc.
Founded2011
Founder Jennifer 8. Lee and Yael Goldstein Love
Country of origin United States
Headquarters location Boston, San Francisco
Official website www.plympton.com

Plympton Inc. is a literary studio founded in 2011 by Jennifer 8. Lee and Yael Goldstein Love. Plympton focuses on publishing serialized fiction for digital platforms, [1] and launched its first series in September 2012 as part of the Kindle Serials program announced by Jeff Bezos. [2] [3]

Of those original series, the installments were divided into installments of between 8,000 and 25,000 words, [4] and were distributed digitally via e-book reader. New installments were automatically updated on readers' devices. [5]

At the 2013 TOC Conference, Plympton announced its new partnership with DailyLit, a leading online publisher and distributor of serialized books through short e-mail installments. [6] [7] DailyLit founders Gigi Danziger (formerly Susan Danziger) and Albert Wenger became investors and advisors for the newly merged company. [8]

Plympton revamped the DailyLit website in November 2013. It is now working with authors like National Book Award winner Julia Glass and Pulitzer Prize finalist Adam Haslett. [9] Through DailyLit, Plympton also co-created a project called Recovering the Classics, which crowdsourced covers for books in the public domain. [10]

In March 2014, Plympton launched Rooster, a mobile reading service for iOS7. [11]

References

  1. ↑ Denison, D.C. (September 8, 2012). "Boston literary start-up lands Amazon deal". The Boston Globe . Retrieved October 26, 2012.
  2. ↑ Bosman, Julie (September 30, 2012). "E-Books Expand Their Potential With Serialized Fiction". The New York Times . Retrieved October 26, 2012.
  3. ↑ Tate, Ryan (September 10, 2012). "Pulp Fiction 2.0: Cheap Thrills for Your Kindle Are Publishing's Latest Cliffhanger". Wired . Retrieved October 26, 2012.
  4. ↑ Ha, Anthony. "Plympton Is A Studio For Serialized Fiction, And Yes, It's Collaborating With Amazon". TechCrunch . AOL Inc. Retrieved October 26, 2012.
  5. ↑ Faircloth, Kelly. "What the Dickens? How Plympton Plans to Revive Serial Fiction". Betabeat. The New York Observer . Retrieved October 26, 2012.
  6. ↑ "DailyLit, Plympton Join Forces". Publishers Weekly . PWxyz LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2013.
  7. ↑ Danziger, Susan. "DailyLit Joins Forces with Plympton". DailyLit. Archived from the original on February 16, 2013. Retrieved February 27, 2013.
  8. ↑ Lee, Jennifer 8. "A Pairing for Valentine's Day: Plympton Joins Forces With DailyLit". Plympton, Inc. Archived from the original on February 17, 2013. Retrieved February 27, 2013.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  9. ↑ Reid, Calvin. "DailyLit Debuts Revamped Website". Publishers Weekly. PWxyz, LLC. Retrieved November 26, 2013.
  10. ↑ Abrams, Dennis. "Recovering the Classics: DailyLit Gives a Facelift to Public Domain Titles". Publishing Perspectives. Publishing Perspectives. Retrieved November 26, 2013.
  11. ↑ "Rooster".
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