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The creators' economy in LATAM - Tus pagos locales y monedas están ya disponibles (en Español)

The creators' economy in LATAM - Tus pagos locales y monedas están ya disponibles (en Español)

This blog post is mainly aimed at users from Latin America, so it makes more sense to publish it in ESPAÑOL (a continuación). Although, in a nutshell, I will just announce that from today, most of the South American countries (Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Uruguay) plus Brazil and Mexico, can use their own local currency and favorite local payment methods on Inkspired; the latter includes making payments in cash, bank transfers, debit cards, e-wallets or even in installments! It's possible to top up your Inkspired Wallet, register for The Authors' Cup, purchase Gift Cards, and use your Wallet to acquire any service, product or purchase stories from your favorite authors. Read the full list of payment methods allowed per country.


Artículo en Español: Anuncio de soporte a monedas locales en LATAM

A partir de hoy queremos anunciar que la mayoría de los países sudamericanos (Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Perú, Uruguay) más Brasil y México, pueden usar su propia moneda local y métodos de pagos locales favoritos en Inkspired. Seguimos en nuestra misión por integrarnos mucho más con la región, y brindar todas las facilidades, herramientas y servicios, de forma transparente, a todos los residentes latinos que sean autores/creadores en Inkspired y también a sus lectores :-)


Inkspired ahora permite transacciones en:

  • Pesos Mexicanos (MXN)
  • Reais Brasileiros (BRL)
  • Pesos Colombianos (COP)
  • Pesos Argentinos (ARS)
  • Pesos Chilenos (CLP)
  • Soles Peruanos (PEN)
  • Bolivianos (BOB)
  • Pesos Uruguayos (UYU)


Puedes utilizar los métodos de pago más populares en cada uno de estos países (incluyendo Ecuador), y pagar utilizando efectivo, tarjetas de débito, e-wallets, transferencias bancarias directas o inclusive ¡pagar en cuotas! Ahora además estamos aceptando todas las tarjetas locales en tu país. Lee la lista completa de métodos de pago permitidos por país.


¿Qué servicios puedo adquirir en mi moneda?

Puedes adquirir virtualmente todos los servicios, productos y hasta historias. Directamente, puedes utilizar tu moneda latina y tus métodos de pago en tres sitios:



No obstante, con este último, *si recargas tu Billetera Inkspired, puedes utilizar aquellos fondos en todo el resto de servicios en la plataforma y también para comprar historias de tus autores favoritas; así que en pocas palabras podemos abarcar todo el sitio web :-)


Hay un solo servicio dentro de la plataforma que no es posible adquirir directamente con la Billetera Inkspired todavía, el cual es la suscripción Writer Premium. Pero como siempre hay solución para todo, nosotros podemos hacerlo manualmente por ti si nos notificas a [email protected]. Solo basta con que recargues tu Billetera Inkspired con un monto igual o superior al de la suscripción anual, y nosotros te daremos de alta enseguida en la membresía Premium.


¿Cómo funciona el pago en efectivo, transferencia, o en cuotas?

El proceso a seguir es muy sencillo. Si estás en un país de los que soportamos estos métodos de pagos locales, basta con solo ir al formulario de pago (checkout).


En la lista de "Métodos de pago" verás las nuevas opciones enlistadas. Al escoger una, verás el precio en USD o Euros, y luego tendrás la conversión al precio final en tu moneda local utilizando la tasa de conversión del día.


Al hacer click en "Confirmar pago", irás a un nuevo formulario de nuestro socio comercial EBANX. Solo debes de llenar tus datos en el formulario y seguir el proceso que se indica: es muy fácil y está lleno de instrucciones a los pasos a seguir. Recibirás un correo de confirmación también con todos los detalles de como completar el pago.


El pago de cuotas solo sirve en pagos con tu tarjeta de crédito local: tendrás opción de entre 2 hasta 6 cuotas diferentes si así lo deseas, tú decides. Para pagos en efectivo o transferencias, tu orden quedará en "Pendiente" hasta que completes el pago y seamos notificados por la entidad de que está confirmada tu orden, ¡y listo!. En realidad es un proceso sencillo, transparente, y seguro : - )


La economía de creadores en LATAM

Nosotros pensamos que por mucho tiempo todos nosotros en latinoamérica nos hemos visto limitados cuando se trata internacionalizarnos tanto para vender como para cobrar. Inkspired está comprometido en hacer todo lo posible para integrar más a la región y abrir puertas a nuevas oportunidades y posibilidades para que tú, como creador, puedas despreocuparte de cómo vender y cómo cobrar; y para que los lectores tengan todas las opciones más convenientes para poder apoyarte.


Dentro de muy poco, además, será posible que nuestros creadores y autores puedan recibir, también, los pagos en sus propios bancos en sus propios países; de esta forma sin verse limitados o preocupados de cómo cobrar o retirar los fondos que arduamente han conseguido.


No hay mejor momento para volverse un creador y autor comercial en Inkspired, porque estaremos aquí para apoyarte a ti y a tus lectores en todo momento : - )


5 Février 2021 13:05 3 Rapport Incorporer 26
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Universes: the art of worldbuilding

Universes: the art of worldbuilding

Creating stories is a narrative art that can take any form. I have been a storyteller ever since I was a kid, even though that just meant creating stories in my head. As I grew older, I started to experiment with more artistic approaches: small comics on a notebook, a small series of comics on a book, painted mangas, even 2D animation using Flash. But there was a trend: every time I came up with new characters playing a part in a story, I always had the tendency of investing myself in the story to make it bigger and bigger. So, in less time than I expected, I will always end up worldbuilding the universe of those characters: its places, attributes, its rules, the history, who is who and why; and, when I started writing as the ultimate way to produce a faster narrative, I even started creating maps in a very much-inspired The Lord of the Rings way.


Worldbuilding is not easy. It requires patience, commitment, time, and, most of all, consistency in the narrative. This consistency is not simple to achieve either: you need to look up for every detail and be so organized that you do not end up getting lost in the ocean of information of the fictional world you are creating. It's a common mistake, in the best-case scenario, to end up with secondary characters that have blue eyes in one chapter and black eyes in another; in the worst-case scenario, end up with a story with so many plot holes that it does not make any sense.


As Inkspired, ultimately, is a storytelling platform for reading and a storytelling tool for creating, we felt the need to expand into that direction. As a writer of fantasy, I have seen the struggle first-hand, and I always thought there must be a better way to organize the content and put it in the function of a larger production. Inkspired has always let you create stories in different formats, but we know that for longer series there was a key component missing: a component that actively links all those stories and puts them in the same content, unifying all the elements that take part in them. So we did something about that, and it's called Universes and Smart Glossaries. Today I'm welcoming you officially to our new worldbuilding tool.

What are Universes?

Universes are Inkspired's latest initiative* designed and created by Galo A. Vargas. They are a new way to showcase your stories. Instead of a story type, Universes are an immersive way to aggregate your existing stories, microfictions, and other media into one single common space. It's especially useful if you are writing full-length novels, books or starting a wider creative project based on fictional worlds. It will help you to remember names, places, dates, and everything you create and write along the way.

Even though it's widely integrated with everything Inkspired as a platform offers, you can also use it with your content elsewhere or even internally in your own group creative projects.

Universes will greatly help you to organize and connect your ideas and your Characters, Places, Events, Cultures, Societies (and more) through our Smart Glossaries.


*Inkspired's "Initiatives" is a program aimed at entrepreneurs who want to start a private app within our community using Inkspired's technology. Send us an e-mail to learn more.


How does it work and for whom is this for?

Universes act more as an aggregator of content rather than a content creator per se. That means that it better serves you if you already have stories (or other media, not necessarily only hosted on Inkspired) you want to bring together in a common space. Universes will be the go-to place for your readers to know everything about the development of your world: the stories you are writing on it, all the glossaries playing a part, the news of upcoming releases or updates, its world maps, and even open up channels for direct collaborations.


So if you are storyteller, or a novelist expanding a fiction universe, or even a producer of other interactive media like video games, role playing games, or a series: Universe are just the tool for you; it will help you organize your content as the producer, and it helps you to follow all the details of the stories if you are the reader.


To get started, just visit the Universes official page. It contains all the step by step of what you have to do to start today for free.


What are the Smart Glossaries?

Smart Glossaries reside at the core of Universes. A Glossary can take the form of a Character, or Event, Place, Item, Vehicle, Technology, Weapon/Armor, Organization, Culture, Society, Historical Registry, Storylines, Techniques/Magic or Creatures. Each one of those brings up all the possible information you could add to better describe that Glossary and then connected to one or more Glossaries in a way that all the information around your story and chapters is always related.


Smart Glossaries can help you to write more accurate fiction by serving us a record of all the details you write about, but it also will help readers to look up for all the references you mention in your narrative and make them stay within the world you are describing. Furthermore, the end goal of the Smart Glossaries, over time, will be to help you as the author and your readers browse all that information "visually", with the involvement of interactive maps, genealogy, characters' relationships, and more.


The vision and the future

We envision Universes as a pillar of what Inkspired wants to be: the ultimate tool for creators and storytellers. Writers (especially fantasy authors) are the first ones to benefit from all its perks, but in general, it can serve any kind of creators as we add more features and integrations throughout the rest of the year. Expect Universes to become a pillar of what Inkspired, as an interactive storytelling platform, wants to be.

26 Janvier 2021 14:25 2 Rapport Incorporer 21
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Inkspired Writer Mobile for Android and iOS is here!

Inkspired Writer Mobile for Android and iOS is here!

The long (very long) wait is over. We finally bring you a native writing experience on your mobile phone and your tablets!


Long since we started on Inkspired, we launched an iOS app (and later Android app) that wanted to focus entirely on the reading experience, while leaving the creative side limited to our website where, we believed, we offer a better and more reliable experience. We had many reasons for limiting writing to the website and therefore not bringing it to mobile, but as our platform evolved, our technology matured, our processes got better, and our users demanded, we have finally heard your pleas. So from today, we want to welcome you to the new Inkspired Writer Mobile.


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Today, we are officially unveiling one of the biggest projects of Inkspired, not only because it amplifies our offering, but because it represents our intent to evolve at a quicker pace and open new horizons.

In less than 24 hours, we saw more than 1,000 stories bring created with it, surpassing the record of the Inkspired Writer app for Mac and Windows when it was launched back at the end of 2017. So now, yes, we have 2 mobile apps on each App Store (Apple and Google Play), plus 1 app for Mac and another one for Windows. What's the deal with this?


Here is a brief recap of what Inkspired Writer Mobile brings to you

  • On the day of its launch, the app is fully available in 5 languages: English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German. You can control not only the content language but the interface language too.
  • You can write stories using a rich-editor and apply the styling you need.
  • You can manage the publishing status of your stories on Inkspired.
  • You can manage the information of your stories and upload their cover pictures.
  • You can access your settings, including the whole set of notifications and service orders, plus modifying your account preferences and edit your profile.
  • You can sign in with Apple now.
  • It's completely adapted to work on iPads and tablets (we will even have further improvements on this).
  • It's very stable, as we have reduced the number of crashes to almost zero on day launch.


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Go to the Inkspired Writer Mobile app download page


The two-app situation

We are aware that is not convenient to have 2 apps on your phone (one for writing and one for reading). The reason why we have 2 apps is that our new Inkspired Writer app uses a newer and different technology. Eventually, both up will become 1 app again under the new technology, but that will be a migration that will happen throughout this year. What you can indeed expect is that this new app will be updated regularly and faster than its predecessor. For a long time, the mobile experience has been the weakest point of our platform (compared to our ever-fast-evolving website), but that will change from now on. There will be even more unique features for mobile, just like the microfictions.


What's coming

2021 will be the year we finally may move to a mobile-first approach, so you can keep your expectations high for what we are going to do with our brand new Inkspired Writer mobile app; eventually, it will include all the most important features that you can find on the website, plus all the reading features of the Inkspired Mobile Reader. But for now, we want to invite you to try it. And if you enjoy it so much, please leave as a review or a comment : - ) We will appreciate it a lot! The objective, at the end of the day, has always been to keep you, our beloved writer and reader, happy.


Going always onwards and upwards,

Best wishes,


Galo

Inkspired CEO

18 Janvier 2021 11:27 2 Rapport Incorporer 18
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Product update - Brief 2020 recap and what's coming on 2021

Happy New Year everybody!


A wild year is gone and dusted, and it has not been easy for anybody. Everyone had to face many different challenges, and Inkspired was not the exception. But as we continued to grow, (and taking advantage of the hard lockdowns of this new world), we tried to move as fast we could by focusing on what matters: you.


We made so many new updates on our platform to help you, as a writer or reader, to feel more at home while browsing throughout our platform: on our website and mobile. We enabled new payments systems to help our authors make some money from their talent, and we finally (and infamously) included Ads in our site (something that was necessary to make up for the hard-hit we are suffering because of the pandemic).


The following is just a brief list of major releases:

  • We created Rewards Levels, to provide even more benefits to our most committed users, and we introduced new avatars to make them more friendly.


  • New multicurrency support for all payments (USD, EUR, GBP).


  • We released Reading Lists on the web and mobile to help you organize your reads, and also let you know what chapters you have already read to keep track of your progress.


  • We included many new Self-publishing services, including external professionals' services such as translations and copyediting. Gift cards are also available now!




  • We revamped and premiered a fully customizable homepage and the pocket library!


  • Turkish is a new fully-supported language on the Inkspired's website.


  • Co-authoring, one of the biggest requests from our writers, is now possible!



  • We released the Inkspired Wallet which serves as an additional payment method, and will soon allow you to top up using your local payments in Latin America. More about this in a separate blog post coming soon.



  • Better and faster server performance, alongside a more integrated experience on notifications on-site, push, and by e-mail.


  • And many more minor details, tweaks across the website and the mobile apps, and massive improvements behind the scenes.


But there are 2 special releases that are even bigger than those ones, and they will totally change Inkspired for what is coming in this 2021 and beyond:


  • We created a program called Inkspired Initiatives, and through it, we have launched our Worldbuilding tool called: Universes. This is huge because it widens the scope of all the storytelling offering that Inkspired provides today and will provide tomorrow. It's a way to link all your stories to one world. One of the core aspects of Universes is that we reintroduced a revamped concept of the Smart Glossaries, which were originally introduced (and still available) in our Inkspired Writer Desktop app for Mac and Windows.


  • Talking about a "Writer App": the second and the biggest project we worked on this past year has to do with an app for writing. For almost 8 months, we worked and pre-released the brand new Inkspired Writer Mobile app for iOS and Android, which finally concludes this one "huge" thing we were owing every single writer in our platform: the ability to natively write and publish from their smartphones without having to go to the website. This is massive because it will change the pace at we release new things on mobile from now on, as we are on our way to switch to a "mobile-first" approach. More about this major release in this blog post.



Last but not least, we want to thank everyone involved with making this community bigger and better, especially to all the teams of our Ambassadors in Latin America and Brazil lead by Gin and Karimy (previously Alice and Camy) respectively; we couldn't have made it as far without any of you. For that, a big Thank You.


2021, let's roll!

15 Janvier 2021 19:53 2 Rapport Incorporer 24
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