This is not good news for the publishing industry, especially in Nigeria (Africa). As a leading indie publishing platform that has helped push a lot of unsigned writers into limelight will be shutting down on November 30th 2023.
The publishing company owned by writer Okechukwu Ofili, was founded in 2013 (10 years ago) and has housed a number of talented writers in different genres across the country, and other African countries.
According to the company's claims, they have about 300,000 active monthly readers and having over 27,000 books on it's digital shelves. However, the shutdown is inevitable as a result of multiple microeconomic problems they were facing, which the founder Okechukwu Ofili said has brought a lot of operational strains on the company, therefore, the need to shutdown.
Unfortunately, this would break the hearts of thousands of writers and creatives who have depended on the platform over the years to get their written works out to their audience. This would mean that writers would have to start packing their bags to migrate to services such as Amazon's kindle KPD and other platforms as well.
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