Other notable features include an algorithm that makes personalized recommendations for kids based on their reading level and content preferences, and the ability to create personalized profiles (up to four per family) to keep track of reading materials individually within an account.
Read-to-Me titles, audiobooks, and Spanish-language and Spanish/English bilingual books are part of the content mix. Content is curated by an in-house editorial team that receives input from Epic’s advisory board, which is composed of publishing and digital industry experts, including Joanna Cotler, former publisher of HarperCollins Children's Books award-winning author Jenni Holm and Tim Ditlow, former v-p and publisher of Listening Library/Random House, who is also Epic’s v-p of content.
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With Markosian, an Internet entrepreneur who had major success with social and mobile gaming company CrowdStar, Donahue, who was part of the original team at YouTube as v-p of content and head of marketing (pre-Google acquisition) notes, “We were enthusiastic and passionate about solving this problem.”Įpic carries more than 14,000 e-book titles from more than 100 publishers-including HarperCollins, Macmillan, Candlewick, Disney, Bellwether Media, and Eerdmans-and describes itself as “the world’s largest digital library for kids.” The focus is on providing unlimited access to high-quality content for children 12 and younger via a platform available on the Web, iOS, and Android devices, as well as Apple TV, for $4.99 per month. At that time, iBooks and Amazon “weren’t being directed toward children,” he explains, recalling his experiences seeking out titles for his daughter. Officially launched in January 2014 by Donahue and Suren Markosian, Epic was born from a desire to “make e-books more available to children online,” Donahue says. “We were up 400% last year and will probably see the same or more this year,” he notes. Epic cofounder Kevin Donahue shared exclusively with PW the latest statistics measuring the company’s performance. Children’s e-book subscription service Epic, based in Redwood City, Calif., is one company that is bucking the naysaying trends.
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