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Plympton, Inc.
Plympton is a literary studio that reinvents how fiction is written, distributed, and read in the digital age. Founded in 2011 by journalist Jennifer 8. Lee and novelist Yael Goldstein Love, the company borrows the Hollywood development model - working with authors from the idea stage - and applies it to serialized fiction, short stories, and experimental formats. Plympton launched the first Kindle Serials for Amazon, acquired the email-serialization pioneer DailyLit, built the curated reading app Rooster, crowdsourced fresh covers for public-domain classics, curated Amazon Original Stories collections, put free short fiction on the NYC subway, and adapted literature into virtual reality.
Inkitt
Inkitt is a San Francisco-based AI-powered publishing and entertainment company that uses reader data and machine learning to identify breakout stories before they become hits. Writers upload fiction to Inkitt's community platform; the platform's algorithm tracks reader engagement to surface manuscripts with bestseller potential. Top stories move to Galatea, a premium immersive reading app offering ebooks, audiobooks, and chat-style fiction, and then to CandyJar, a short-drama streaming app. The result: a story-to-screen pipeline with 33 million users, a new million-dollar novel produced every four weeks, and 40x the hit-rate of traditional publishers.