Digitalback Books Brings Nollybooks to Readers

Digitalback Books, a digital subscription service offering instant and unlimited access to literary works from across Africa and the Diaspora has extended its growing catalogue to include the ever popular Nollybook series.

The latest deal brings the Nollybooks chic-lit series to subscribers on smartphones, tablets or desktops.

The chic-lit titles have become quite popular across Africa; some titles have also been converted to TV on the African Channel.

Since its launch in December 2014, Digitalback Books has focused on growing its current catalogue.

A wide variety of titles are currently available from a broad alliance of publishers including Peepal Tree Press, Parresia Publishers, Amabooks, African perspectives publishing, Weaver press, Modjaji Books, Malthouse Press, African Heritage Press, Femrite publications, University of Namibia, Wordweaver Publishers and Sub-Saharan publishers, many of whom are part of the African Books collective.

The digital subscription service is now available for access to a rapidly growing population of increasingly mobile and data savvy users in Nigeria, with imminent plans to extend content to readers across the Africa and the diaspora.

Commenting on the latest partnership, Gersy Ifeanyi Ejimofo, founder of Digitalback Books said “We are really pleased about this latest deal. It is important that we give our readers what they ask for and recent survey results show that romance fiction is amongst the top genres searched for by mobile readers. This partnership with Nollybooksticks just the right box in our growing catalogue and there is much more to come, both in terms of quantity and diversity.”

Also, Moky Makura from MME Media, creators of the Nollybook series said, “We believe in making books entertaining, accessible and affordable, so I am pleased we have found a partner and platform that can help us get more people experiencing books that they can relate to.  Nollybooks reflect the universal themes of modern day love – it’s essentially everyone’s favourite romantic comedy in a book”.

Nollybooks is now available on Digitalback Books.

Digitalback Books, digitalbackbooks.com leverages advances in technology and the explosion of mobiles devices on the continent, and seeks to plug some of the gaps that the region’s publishing industry faces in distribution as well as offer a single comprehensive digital platform for all of Africa’s stories.

Digitalback Books is available online and also available via apps for the iPad and Android devices.