Reedsy

Reedsy is a British publishing services company.

History

The company was established in 2014 in Shoreditch, London, UK. The name was inspired by the reed-like sedge used to create papyrus. It was initially funded by Seedcamp and DC Thomson co-founded by Emmanuel Nataf, who became the CEO.
Reedsy received 7,000 applications for its marketplace in its first year. It won the 2015 BookTech Gold Award and the 2016 Quantum Publishing Innovation Award.

Services

The company operates a marketplace of freelancers providing publishing services, such as editing, illustrating, translating, marketing, and ghostwriting. Authors use the marketplace to identify freelancers to work with, comparing previous work and rates. Reedsy takes a 10% cut of revenue from both the buyer and seller.
Reedsy Studio launched in 2016, was developed as an online tool for book planning, manuscript development and collaborative editing. Reedsy Studio has been criticised for its connectivity issues.
Reedsy Learning provides some free online courses on writing.