This Year's Most Loved Ebook on 'Millie's Library' is 'The Uncomfortable Convenience Store 2'

Year-End Review of Millie's Library Popular Reading Content... Top Books in E-books, Audiobooks, and Chatbooks Revealed
Books Selected Based on Actual Reading Data of Millie Members, Including Number of Books Shelved and Completion Rates

[Asia Economy Reporter Seomideum] Author Kim Ho-yeon's 'Uncomfortable Convenience Store 2' has been selected as the most beloved e-book of the year on the reading platform Millie's Library.

The reading platform Millie's Library stated, "'Uncomfortable Convenience Store 2' was chosen as the most beloved reading content of the year at the '2022 Millie Awards,'" adding, "The award-winning works were comprehensively evaluated based on Millie's Library members' reading data, including the number of times added to libraries, actual number of readers, completion rates, and popularity from January 1 to October 31 of this year."

'Uncomfortable Convenience Store' became a hot topic among Millie's Library members immediately after its first publication last year and even reached bestseller status in bookstores. Following this, the sequel also received enthusiastic responses, making it the third Korean novel series of the 2020s to surpass one million cumulative sales for volumes 1 and 2. The series also achieved record numbers on Millie's Library, with over 380,000 additions to members' libraries and around 7,600 one-line reviews.

In the audiobook category, author Hwang Bo-reum's 'Welcome to Hyunamdong Bookstore' was selected as the work of the year. Released as a Millie Original content, 'Welcome to Hyunamdong Bookstore' met many readers not only as an e-book and paper book but also as audio content, with its uniquely comfortable and warm sensibility. Hwang Bo-reum was also ranked first as the 'most loved author on Millie's Library in 2022.'

The Chatbook of the Year went to Dale Carnegie's 'It Was Always Me Who Made Things Difficult.' Chatbooks are reading contents that summarize a book in a chat format. It is characterized by allowing readers to comfortably enjoy the warm life advice of the author, who is regarded as the writer of the bibles of self-development such as 'Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People' and 'Dale Carnegie's Self-Management,' in a conversational style with the author in about 15 minutes.

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