by Cyle Young @CyleYoung
If you are writing to a YA audience, I highly
recommend that you invest some time and energy in this app.
Have you heard of Amazon Rapids and Tap? If so,
have you ever read any chat stories?
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Cyle Young is a force-sensitive dragon rider trapped in the modern world. When he and his three muggle padawans aren’t racing chocobos, they search for a magical wardrobe or time stone that may help them return home before The Nothing, Skeletor, or Skynet takes over this dimension. Cyle credits his 20+ writing awards to his discovery of the One Ring to Rule Them All. He lives in the Midwest and when he is not shopping manuscripts for Hartline Literary Agency, he can be found pastoring a growing church or lounging in his hammock beside the tranquil Grand River. More at www.cyleyoung.com
Have you heard of the relatively new chat story craze?
Tap is a mobile phone app
that drops you right into a story and you experience the story by reading
someone else’s texts. Many of the chat stories fall within genres that are easy
to wrap around short snippets of dialogue. Thriller, Suspense, Romance, Comedy,
and Horror dominate the app.
Wattpad launched Tap earlier
in 2017 and some of the tap stories have already received over 172,000,000
million taps—a tap on the screen to advance dialogue. Tap is an excellent tool
for authors to develop new audiences. It can also be used as a testing ground
or focus group setting for dialogue sequences for novels still under
development.
Tap is growing at a steady
pace and it seems to be poised for a longer shelf life because it is owned by a
company that knows its demographic. Wattpad continues to make huge growth gains
and Tap is poised to grow along with its parent company.
Amazon Rapids
Amazon Rapids beat Tap to
market when launched in late 2016. Amazon Rapids is similar to Tap in that it
has chat stories, but its unique difference is that Rapids targets a much
younger audience than Tap.
Rapids targets a 5-12
demographic for its content and providers for the content must be contracted by
Amazon. Amazon Rapids also features signature stories based on business
relationships with many popular properties such as SpongeBob SquarePants, Niko,
and many other Amazon Studios characters and shows.
Amazon is betting on the
success of its television children’s programs on Amazon Prime to bring in a new
generation of electronic readers for Rapids. In truth, it has the potential to
be a brilliant business maneuver. Success and growth of Rapids would seemingly
ensure the success of the Amazon Kindle model for years.
The biggest downfall to
Rapids is that is a subscription-based model, which can be problematic for
parents on a tight budget. But for authors, Amazon Rapids is a paying
marketplace and it is worth your time and energy to investigate the possibility
of becoming published with Amazon Rapids.
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What are TAP and Amazon Rapids? Writers need to know - @CyleYoung (Click to Tweet)
Cyle Young is a force-sensitive dragon rider trapped in the modern world. When he and his three muggle padawans aren’t racing chocobos, they search for a magical wardrobe or time stone that may help them return home before The Nothing, Skeletor, or Skynet takes over this dimension. Cyle credits his 20+ writing awards to his discovery of the One Ring to Rule Them All. He lives in the Midwest and when he is not shopping manuscripts for Hartline Literary Agency, he can be found pastoring a growing church or lounging in his hammock beside the tranquil Grand River. More at www.cyleyoung.com
Ummmm....this is amazing. Totally checking these out!!
ReplyDeleteSkeletor,really? Showing your age there! But, great info. for He-man to use.
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