The Epic Originals line is led by author-illustrator and animator Eric Wight, known for his comic books and graphic novels ( My Dead Girlfriend the Frankie Pickle series). We had been thinking for a long time that original content would be a great addition, but just didn’t have the opportunity before now.” “We had to build a team that could help us create world class content and that’s the catalyst. “The funding was a big part” of Epic’s new direction, Donahue said. Since October, the Epic Originals collection racked up nearly three million reads on the platform, and kids read Undersea Mystery Club: Problem at the Playground, about a mermaid and a narwhal solving mysteries, more than 200,000 times in its first week of release. “We wanted to see how kids would react to the books, and how the titles would perform before jumping in with both feet to create the Originals area of the site.” The results were “great,” according to Donahue. “We put a couple books into the service to gather data,” Donahue said. Undersea Mystery Club: Problem at the Playground by Courtney Carbone, illustrated by Melanie Demmer is one of four additional titles that trickled onto the Epic platform early this year. “We’ll continue to expand the partnerships with our publishers, but it just made sense to us to do something that kids couldn’t find anywhere else in the world, that was unique to us,” Epic cofounder Kevin Donahue said.Įpic quietly completed a soft, beta-type launch of a few originals on its platform beginning with Nellie Nutgraf: The Double-Best Reporter in History: A Hot Story by Tom Angleberger in October 2018. Epic’s content library now contains more than 35,000 items-books, videos, and audiobooks-from more than 250 publishers including HarperCollins, Macmillan, National Geographic Kids, and Sesame Workshop.ĭeveloping original content is a direct result of these recent developments. That same month, Epic announced several five-year milestones, revealing that the subscription service now reaches 10 million children and that 500 million books have been read on its platform since it launched in 2014. In January, Epic secured $30 million in funding led by Evolution Media, the global tech, media and entertainment investment company partnered with TPG and Creative Artists Agency. The Epic Originals collection of books and videos goes live today with the release of titles Cat Ninja by Matthew Cody, illustrated by Yehudi Mercado, My Pet Slime by Courtney Sheinmel, illustrated by Renee Kurilla, and Scaredy Monster: Scaredy Monster Loses a Tooth by Meika Hashimoto, illustrated by Steve Lambe. Fresh from announcing impressive company growth and an infusion of $30 million in new funding, Redwood, Calif.-based kids’ digital reading platform Epic has kicked off an exclusive, original content program.
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