Resisting the Post-Print Era
By William Tham
October 2019 FEATURE
The Tai Tong restaurant on Lebuh Cintra is an unusual place for a literary discussion, but it is where a friend insists on introducing me to a website that hosts his favourite reads. Over dim sum, he explains the workings of Webnovel, the international portal of the burgeoning China Literature company. The concept is simple: writers upload content; readers pay for said content. Popular serials have been adapted for television.It is not alone: the industry giant Wattpad dominated the digital...
William Tham
has been published in NANG, PR&TA, The Best of World SF: Volume 2, and the Southeast Asian Review of English. He co-edited The Second Link: An Anthology of Malaysian and Singaporean Writing.
