Serial Box CEO and co-founder Molly Barton described the company’s approach to publishing as “retooling reading for the smartphone age.” It doesn’t publish novels rather, it releases what it calls “Serials,” which are longform stories that take more of a cue from a season of television than a traditional novel. After signing in, existing users’ libraries will automatically sync to the app. The iOS app is also one of the better reading apps out there, and the Android app carries over the same features, including a storefront where you can subscribe to each Serial story and the ability to switch between reading and listening to each story seamlessly. Taken together, those things show that the company is growing, and bringing in users on the platform will allow it to continue to grow its user base.Ī beta version of the Android app was available, but this is, at last, the final version. The rollout comes after the company made a couple of big announcements: it’s partnering with Marvel to produce a new family of serials about Black Panther, Black Widow, Jessica Jones, and Thor, and it also announced that it had raised an additional $4.5 million in seed funding. Yesterday, the company rolled out a long-awaited Android app, bringing its growing library of stories to a new platform.

Since its launch, fiction startup Serial Box has existed as a desktop and iOS app.

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