New
York : With
more and more teenagers giving up books for Facebook and Twitter, an Indian-American
businesswoman cum author has recently launched an app that features short
fiction for young readers or what she calls the “Snapchat generation”.
Each
book on the app called Hooked will be roughly 1,000 words and is designed to be
read in about five minutes reported IANS.
The
stories will be told entirely through dialogue and read like texts. Messages
show up on screen when readers click “Next,” CNN Money reported.
While
initially, the app, developed by Prerna Gupta, will only feature content from
screened contributors, eventually users will be able to submit content of their
own.
The
app is free to download and features one free story a day. Readers can unlock
more stories with the subscription service. A week of unlimited stories costs
$2.99. A month is $7.99 and a year is $39.99, the report said.
Telepathic,
the company Gupta founded with her husband, Parag Chordia, has raised $1.9
million and closed its first round of funding.
Gupta
was co-founder and CEO of Khush, the leading developer of intelligent music
apps like Songify, an app that turns speech into music.
Source | Free Press | 22 September 2015
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