Have you ever wondered how some writers manage to keep readers hooked week after week with serialized stories that feel fresh, engaging, and carefully planned? Serialized storytelling is a unique art ...

Now that the latest season of Game of Thrones has ended, fans may be feeling a little untethered — and some publishers would like to fill that gap with serialized books. As TV dramas get better and ...

Utilizing a business model that combines elements of online gaming and digital reading platforms popular in Korea and China, Radish, a mobile reading app that offers short original serialized fiction, ...

Webtoon, the company behind the storytelling platform Wattpad and its namesake online comics portal, launched a new app on Thursday offering serialized fiction that readers can purchase and read one ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the future of books and the business of storytelling. The publishing industry might not be as buzzy as film or TV, ...

Procedural shows are usually formulaic. Each episode has a case, it gets solved, and then viewers move on. Over the years, a surprising number of these TV shows quietly shifted gears. These simple ...

As it promised last month, Amazon has launched its serialized fiction Kindle Vella store that lets you unlock episodic, self-published stories via in-app purchases. The new platform is a way for ...

Amazon is trying to capitalize on the growing market for serialized fiction. The company today launched Kindle Vella, a mobile-first platform that lets readers buy stories in episodic chunks. Despite ...

The current era of Peak TV owes much of its existence to the increasing sway of serialized storytelling. The availability of TV seasons on DVD and then streaming allowed TV creators to think in ...