Moving from Tapas? Bring Your Stories to Ream.

Sep 22

3 min read

Updated: Sep 24

If you're looking for a new home for your Tapas stories, you don't have to start from zero.

Ream is built specifically for fiction creators, including comic creators. You can publish vertical-scroll comics, bring your existing readers with you, build followers and community, offer paid memberships and gated episodes, and see detailed analytics on how readers discover and engage with your work.

Your stories can move. Your readers can come with you. And we're here to help with the transition.

Ream is home to more than 20,000 fiction creators, from novelists and serial fiction authors to comic creators. If you're looking for a new home for your Tapas stories, we want to make that move as easy as possible.

What can you do on Ream right now?

If you're coming from Tapas, you can:

Publish vertical-scroll comics built for mobile reading.
Bring your audience with you and give readers a place to follow your work and get notified when you update.
Build a community around your stories with comments, community posts, reader chat, and direct reader relationships.
Create paid memberships and gate episodes or bonus content for paying readers right where they're already reading.
Understand your audience with discovery, reading, sales, and retention analytics.
Reach new readers through genre pages, rankings, new releases, recently updated stories, and other discovery surfaces.
Publish more than comics. Novels, serials, ebooks, audio, and comics can all live under the same creator account.
Sell ebooks directly through Single Sales, including preorders, scheduled releases, and discounts.

Bring your stories

Already have dozens or hundreds of episodes on Tapas? Bring your existing catalog to Ream and continue publishing episode by episode on whatever schedule works for you.

And if comics aren't the only thing you create, your novels, serial fiction, ebooks, audio, and comics can all live under the same creator account.

Bring your readers, too

Your stories aren't the only thing you've built. You've built an audience around them.

On Ream, you own your audience and your relationship with your readers, including access to your follower list, so if you ever choose to leave Ream, you can take your audience with you instead of having to start over somewhere else.

Invite your Tapas followers to follow you on Ream, along with readers from your newsletter, social media, Discord, or anywhere else you've built a community. Once they're on Ream, readers can follow your work, receive notifications when you publish, comment as they read, participate in your community, and keep the stories they're reading organized on their shelves.

It's not just about moving your story. You can bring the community around your stories with you.

Keep publishing for free, or start earning

You decide how your Ream works.

Keep your comic free. You don't need to monetize your work to publish on Ream.
Create subscription memberships. Offer early episodes, bonus content, exclusive stories, behind-the-scenes posts, or other perks through recurring paid tiers.
Gate individual episodes. Give paying members access to specific episodes or content directly within the reading experience.
Sell books directly. If you also publish ebooks, Ream's Single Sales let you sell them directly to readers, including preorders, scheduled releases, and discounts. Readers permanently own the books they purchase and keep them on their Ream shelves.

And we're continuing to build more ways for comic creators to sell their work directly on Ream.

Moving a big Tapas catalog? We'll help.

If you've built a substantial catalog or audience on Tapas, you don't have to figure out the move alone. We're offering dedicated migration support for Tapas creators who want to bring their work to Ream.

We can answer questions about: