Plympton Inc. is a literary studio founded in 2011 by
Jennifer 8. Lee
Jennifer 8. Lee (Chinese name: ; pinyin: '; POJ: ') (born March 15, 1976) is an American journalist who previously worked for ''The New York Times''. She is also the co-founder and president of the literary studio Plympton, as well as a produce ...
and
Yael Goldstein Love
Yael Goldstein Love (born 1978) is a novelist, editor and book critic. She is also co-founder and editorial director of the literary studio Plympton.
Biography
Goldstein Love's first novel was ''The Passion of Tasha Darsky'', originally titled ...
. Plympton focuses on publishing
serialized fiction for digital platforms,
and launched its first series in September 2012 as part of the Kindle Serials program announced by
Jeff Bezos.
Of those original series, the installments were divided into installments of between 8,000 and 25,000 words,
and were distributed digitally via
e-book reader. New installments were automatically updated on readers' devices.
At the 2013
TOC Conference, Plympton announced its new partnership with
DailyLit
DailyLit is an online publisher founded in 2006 by Susan Danziger and Albert Wenger. The site distributes stories in serial installments via e-mail and RSS feed. The installments are designed to be read in under five minutes.
The first storie ...
, a leading online publisher and distributor of serialized books through short e-mail installments.
DailyLit founders Susan Danziger and
Albert Wenger
Albert Wenger is a German-American businessman and venture capitalist. Wenger is a managing partner at Union Square Ventures, a New York City-based venture capital firm with investments in companies such as Twilio, Etsy, Firebase, Behance, and M ...
became investors and advisors for the newly merged company.
Plympton revamped the DailyLit website in November 2013. It is now working with authors like National Book Award winner Julia Glass and
Pulitzer Prize
The Pulitzer Prize () is an award for achievements in newspaper, magazine, online journalism, literature, and musical composition within the United States. It was established in 1917 by provisions in the will of Joseph Pulitzer, who had made h ...
finalist Adam Haslett.
Through DailyLit, Plympton also co-created a project called Recovering the Classics, which
crowdsourced covers for books in the public domain
and continues to sell them through the Harvard Bookstore and the Politics & Prose Bookstore in
Washington, D.C.
In March 2014, Plympton launched
Rooster, a mobile reading service for iOS7.
For $4.99 per month, Rooster distributes notable fiction in short installments corresponding to the average, 15-minute commute. Users can customize how often and at what time their installment will arrive, as well as text size, font style, background color, and amount of content displayed (they can skip to future installments if desired).
The app's slogan is "Well-Read in Minutes a Day."
References
External links
* {{Official website, http://plympton.com/
Ebook sources
Publishing companies of the United States