17 February 2014
Binge-watching came, saw, and conquered television. Now, the binge is coming to a library near you, as book publishers are looking to make "binge-reading" a thing.
Call it "a TV approach" to publishing, as editors at St. Martin's Press did to the The New York Times. While developers and companies looked for the "Netflix for Books," the real contribution of Netflix to the book publishing world has been its all-at-once rollout. It's got publishers wondering: Why make people wait 10 years to read all of the Harry Potter books when you can gobble them up all at once?
