Flipkart collaborates with Pratilipi to provide selection of ebooks

Flipkart, one of India’s leading digital commerce entities and Pratilipi, one of India’s biggest digital storytelling platform have announced that they will join forces to create the biggest library of fiction and nonfiction e-books in 12 Indian languages across multiple genres like romance, horror, self-help, motivation etc.

Pratilipi has around 25 million Monthly Active Users. Over 9.5 million stories have been published on Pratilipi till date with 500 million reads every month. Daily active users currently spend 90 minutes per day and premium subscribers spend around 3 hours/day

With this collaboration, Pratilipi aims to dig deeper amongst the audience consuming regional content and expand its user base in hinterlands of India. This will allow bookworms across the country to explore stories/novels/series beyond the barriers of language & geography by creating the largest e-book library of premium content by homegrown talents. The larger vision with this collaboration is to eventually create a strong ecosystem of regional literature in various formats with amateur as well as established authors combining the Pratilipi product ecosystem which includes Pratilipi Comics, Westland Books, IVM Podcasts etc.

Speaking on this collaboration, Ranjeet Pratap Singh, CO-Founder & CEO, Pratilipi, said,“The driving idea behind Pratilipi is essentially access. At Pratilipi, we believe that everyone should have access to reading irrespective of any barriers such as language, geography, format, money and technical literacy. Joining hands with Flipkart, one of India’s leading digital commerce entities, we believe that together we can build one of the biggest content libraries in regional languages and make it easily accessible to audiences that like to consume content in regional languages.”

“Reading is an essential part of everyone’s learning journey. While more and more people adopt technology as the way of learning and storytelling, it is our endeavor to cater to their evolving needs. To offer customers an extensive range of books across genres, Flipkart has collaborated with Pratilipi, one of India’s biggest storytelling platforms. With this development, we will reach our customer base of 450 million people and fuel their passion to read across 12+ Indian languages”, said Kanchan Mishra, business head, FMCG, home and general merchandise, Flipkart.