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 ...

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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 ...

A number of classic works of fiction began as short, serialized stories published weekly in newspapers. Charles Dickens famously published his first novel, The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, ...

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 ...

The upfronts are over. Broadcast networks and cable stations have paraded out their best new shows for advertisers who shelled out an estimated $25 billion (including for digital) to push their ...

Upon its debut, Star Trek: Deep Space Ninewas a controversial series for its many departures from what fans expected in the universe Gene Roddenberry created. The show ended up being very prescient, ...

To say “South Park” has broached some bold topics in its first 18 seasons is akin to saying Cartman is a sociopath — neither statement tells the full story. But to encompass all of the experimental ...

Java’s Serializable interface provides an easy-to-use programming interface for converting between a runtime object and a byte stream. Serialization involves mapping a runtime object or an object ...