Merrative

Merrative is a free community of 5000+ avid readers and publishing talent for the creation, curation, and discussion of great digital literature across books, news, articles, and research papers. They are a cross between Scribd and Twitter - enabling creation and conversation around literature.

Readers, content creators (authors, publishers, podcasters), and communities can:

• Create: Creators and brands can access the top 5% of publishing talent to create and manage their own publications
• Curate: share recommended books, articles, takeaways, fan fiction, summaries, etc
• Converse: start or join online/offline group discussions, read along, workshops on literature across any topic (film, poetry, tech, news, etc)

At present, their community is over 2800 readers with 4500+ newsletter subscribers.

By creating these micro-communities for discussion and collaboration, Merrative aims to enable the publishing of ideas/knowledge one perceives on paper and reduce biased opinions one forms while consuming digital literature.

They aim to create a safe and dedicated space for text-based content creators and consumers to thrive. Hence, as a part of a unique ecosystem, they have created a managed publishing talent marketplace.

The community help authors, podcasters and companies to become media-first brands by connecting with world-class publishing talent. They do this by being your lean, virtual editorial team. But also, helping you hire across freelancers, full-time, or interns. This includes talent and partnerships across publicity, ghostwriting, translations, copywriting, book marketing, etc.

Merrative is also working with SaaS tools and enablers to create a directory that will allow readers to access amazing publishing, content marketing, and productivity tools. It's an ecosystem where you can hire top 5 % publishing talent.

Thus, the community aims to be a wholesome hub to enable the creation and engagement of literature that is appreciated and consumed for centuries to come.