1) Are people reading novels on their phone?
2) Are you guys expanding beyond novels?
3) What's traction up to this point?
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@stuartgoldfarb
1) Not really, b/c novels are written for paper, not phones. There's an opportunity to use mobile to reinvent how stories are created and consumed.
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@stuartgoldfarb
2) Because our platform is mobile, not paper, we will be able to push the boundaries of what a really novel is. For example, our SMS novel PROM lets you insert yourself into the plot by texting one of the characters
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3) We have analytics down to the story (and page) level and so far we've generated some hits and misses. Ex: GAVEL is shared 1 out of every 2 times it's read. For the misses, our platform (phone) and distribution (app store) lets us iterate on the novels in really short cycle times until they become hits.
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@shaunsims are your novels specifically written for your platform?
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@stuartgoldfarb Right now yes, we are thinking from first principles of what a mobile novel should be: read in a few quick sessions; pull in location and contact list to name and place the suspect down the street from you; immersive plots where you decide where the story goes; bake news and current events into plot in real time, etc.
