Company:Tablo Publishing
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| Headquarters | Melbourne, Australia |
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Key people | Ash Davies (CEO) |
| Products | Self-publishing, eBooks, Paperback Books |
Tablo Publishing is a social self-publishing platform that allows authors to write books, build an online profile, and self-publish in eBook and paperback to 40,000 retailers including Amazon, the Apple iBooks Store, and physical bookshops such as Barnes & Noble and Readings. The platform is used by more than 70,000 authors who want to easily create and distribute their books, and by readers who want to discover and follow emerging writers across all genres. Tablo's author community spans more than 150 countries.
History
Tablo was founded early in 2013 by Australian entrepreneur Ash Davies at age 19. Davies started the company after a challenging experience in publishing his own book, with the goal to democratise publishing by providing authors with an environment to create, publish and be discovered.[1]
The initial idea was accepted into the AngelCube startup accelerator in Melbourne, who invested $20,000 of capital into the company and incubated the startup for three months.[2] Following the launch of its online book creation and publishing application late in 2013, Tablo secured an additional $400,000 in funding from a number of Australian and American angel investors, including Catch Of The Day CEO Paul Reining and Y Combinator partner Kevin Hale.[3]
Tablo's original product was a browser-based application that allowed authors to create and self-publish eBooks to stores such as Amazon and the iBooks Store. As an experimental campaign in late 2013, Tablo introduced social features that allowed authors to share their works-in-progress, which saw significant attention from authors and readers who were interested in connecting with readers while they wrote their books. Tablo relaunched as a social writing and reading community in July 2014 that allowed authors to write and publish books, and allowed readers to discover emerging books and follow their favourite authors.[4]
In April of 2018 Tablo introduced paperback publishing and expanded its distribution network to 40,000 online and physical retailers including Amazon, the Apple iBooks Store, and thousands of physical bookshops.[5] The expansion made Tablo the largest distribution network available to independent authors, and the only self-publishing platform to allow authors to publish their writing in both eBook and paperback simultaneously. Paperback publishing was enabled by a Print-on-Demand network that lists books as in-stock with nearly every retailer, but only prints and distributes each copy immediately upon purchase, allowing authors to distribute and update their paperback books from the Tablo website and applications without ever requiring any inventory.
References
- ↑ "Founder of publishing start-up Tablo wants to change the way books are created". The Sydney Morning Herald. http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/digital-life-news/founder-of-publishing-startup-tablo-wants-to-change-the-way-books-are-created-20131221-2zrwd.html.
- ↑ Gavin Lower. "Travel start-up brings an international flavour to AngelCube’s 2013 intake program". startupsmart.com.au. http://www.startupsmart.com.au/financing-a-business/travel-start-up-brings-an-international-flavour-to-angelcubes-2013-intake-program/201305289831.html.
- ↑ John Biggs. "Publishing Startup Tablo Raises $400,000 Seed Round". TechCrunch. AOL. https://techcrunch.com/2014/07/10/publishing-start-up-tablo-raises-400000-seed-round/.
- ↑ "Things heat up in the Digital Publishing space as Tablo closes $400,000 seed round". Startup Daily. http://www.startupdaily.net/2014/07/things-heat-digital-publishing-space-tablo-close-400k-seed-round/.
- ↑ "Tablo’s Next Step a Page-Turner". The Australian. https://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/technology/tablos-next-step-a-page-turner/news-story/21c69e6547c6f8781d665b2a7b8506f1/.
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