Millie's Library, Major Revamp from Book Videos to Original Content

Book-based video content presented by Millie's Library

Reading platform Millie’s Library (CEO Seo Young-taek) announced on the 21st that it has revamped its app interface and services, focusing on book-based video content and original content.

The biggest change in this revamp is the snack-type video content based on books featured in each curation corner on the app’s home screen. This content targets MZ generation members who find it difficult to read or choose books, and all videos are short-form, with playback times of around 1 to 3 minutes.

The types of video content are diverse, including the live show format “In a Word,” which quickly and cleverly summarizes a book; “Q&A,” which provides answers to various everyday concerns through books; “iMessage,” which sensually conveys the book’s content through message exchanges with a fictional character; and “Daily Toon,” which visualizes the book’s content as short comics called InstaToons. In the newly established corner “Now! Bookstore Bestsellers,” which showcases Millie’s Library’s best books based on bookstore bestsellers, users can explore not only e-books but also audiobook previews and related video content.

The newly established Millie's Library Original section in this revision

An original content section has also been newly established. All Millie Original works to date, including original e-books and Millie Original serials, have been gathered in this new section. To present more immersive original content, new Millie Original serial works are also being prepared. The essay “Work in Seoul, Sleep in Jeju,” which captures the breathless island life of the acclaimed writer Park Sang-young, who is gaining attention both domestically and internationally, will be serialized every Monday. Articles by Hyoracle, a stock expert and journalist for the economic newsletter “Apt,” can also be found as Millie Original serials.

Millie’s Library’s first newsletter, “Book-It” Beta version, which allows readers to grasp trends and literacy simultaneously through books, is also being introduced. The existing “Today’s Topic” content, which Millie’s Library has presented daily, has been expanded into a newsletter to reach more subscribers. The newsletter “Chat-It” is characterized by helping readers understand the latest trends more deeply based on books, while also enhancing literacy simply by receiving the newsletter, thanks to expert commentary and quizzes reviewed and supervised by the KBS Korean Language Promotion Institute.

Millie's Library Launches Its First Newsletter 'Book-It'

Kim Tae-hyung, Head of Content at Millie’s Library, said, “This revamp was made to make reading a habit and to help generations unfamiliar with reading become more familiar with books by strengthening various book-based secondary content. We are actively discovering original content that allows people to explore popular figures and trends through books, and we plan to further increase the variety and number of video content that improves accessibility to books. Ultimately, we hope Millie’s Library can contribute to expanding the reading population.”

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