{"id":651570,"date":"2013-04-10T08:50:41","date_gmt":"2013-04-10T12:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paidcontent.org\/?p=227487"},"modified":"2013-04-10T08:50:41","modified_gmt":"2013-04-10T12:50:41","slug":"waterstones-founder-to-help-launch-new-e-singles-subscription-site-read-petite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/651570","title":{"rendered":"Waterstones founder to help launch new e-singles subscription site, Read Petite"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tim Waterstone, founder of the U.K.’s Waterstones bookstore chain, is involved in a new venture: Read Petite<\/a>, a subscription site for long-form fiction and nonfiction. The site will be announced at the London Book Fair next week and will launch to the public in the fall.<\/p>\n

Waterstone is chairman. Read Petite was founded by literary agent Peter Cox and consultant Martyn Daniels. Neill Denny, a former editor of book trade magazine\u00a0The Bookseller<\/em>, is COO.<\/p>\n

Cox tells\u00a0The Bookseller<\/em><\/a>, “We are genuinely trying to expand the reading market, and bring publishers together under our aegis to do something new. Up until now short-form writing has not really been economic to produce, but we think we can unleash it.”<\/p>\n

Monthly subscription prices haven’t been set yet, but Waterstone tells the\u00a0Guardian<\/em><\/a> that they will likely be “a few pounds,” giving readers unlimited access to a library of long-form journalism and short stories. The stories will be submitted by publishers.<\/p>\n

Read Petite sounds similar to U.S. e-singles sites Byliner and the Atavist, both of which are experimenting with subscriptions<\/a> that give readers access to all their titles for a monthly fee.<\/p>\n

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