Now, riders of the New York City subway can read short stories, novellas, and excerpted chapters from novels during their commute.
A report in the New York Times says that Subway Reads, a web platform, has partnered with Penguin Random House to bring reading material to commuters. This can even be selected based on the length of one’s subway ride – a 10-minute-read for a 10-minute ride, a 20-minute-chapter for a 20-minute commute, and so on.
Subway Reads approached PRH after the mega publishing house did a similar promotion on the London Underground to celebrate Penguin’s 80th anniversary.
The feature will last for eight weeks, and is meant to promote the presence of Wi-Fi in 175 stations of the New York subway. In this time, riders can read short stories and novellas Lee Child, Lisa Gardner, Alexander McCall Smith, F Scott Fitzgerald, and Edgar Allen Poe – all for free.
If only such a service came to the Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru or Kolkata metros. With so many on their phones in any case, there are sure to be many takers.
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