Wattpad Webtoon Partners With ViacomCBS Paramount+ As Online Reading Threatens Western Publishing’s Complacency
One of America’s biggest studios is planning to milk content from Wattpad Webtoon authors – many...
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The parallel publishing universe that is online reading continues its exponential rise as mainstream western publishing looks the other way
Add the 70 million readers on Pratilip, the 49 million for China Literature outside China and the...
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Wattpad authors have earned over $1 million in the past 2 years from Wattpad Paid Stories
Authors who want to make quick money are better off with regular self-publishing options, but of...
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Wattpad Brand Originals launched as 45% of Wattpad’s Gen Z users say they do not watch traditional TV. Publishers, keep up
For Millennials and Gen Zers … subscription isn’t the New Normal. It’s just normal. Baby-Boomers,...
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Naver’s $600 million buy-out of Wattpad should be a wake-up call for western publishers who still don’t “get” online reading
Underestimate the significance of this deal at your peril. This is another seismic shift that will...
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Wattpad, “the world’s leading platform for writers”, plans second Canada HQ in Halifax
With its headquarters in Toronto and offices in London, Los Angeles, New York, Hong Kong, Mumbai,...
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Publish Global, the StreetLib-TNPS B2B newsletter for self-publishers, is hitting inboxes this weekend
The first issue of the new B2B newsletter for self-publishers, Publish Global – serious...
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Wattpad’s Latin America partnership is a reminder of the global digital reading phenomenon beyond the ebook, that goes untracked by Nielsen and BookStat, and ignored by most publishers
This past week Wattpad announced a partnership with Brazil’s Wise Entertainment, described by...
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80 million invisible booklovers redux. Wattpad partners with global streaming service Viu to develop Wattpad stories as Viu original content
Operating in 17 markets – Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, India, Indonesia, Philippines,...
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Wattpad’s 80 million users are part of the invisible and untapped global digital-first readership many publishers are oblivious to
Several industry reports carry the Wattpad press release announcing the Toronto-based company has...
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Wattpad authors and readers blaze the diversity trail together with #MuslimRomance, #MuslimLoveStory, #IslamicLoveStory, #DiverseLit, #FreeTheLGBT and #Girlpower
While other publishers talk a lot about diversity and equality, and have taken steps to make it...
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A reminder that Wattpad is not just about teen romance
Debut novelist Sam Marsden is the latest author to grab the attention of the moving pictures folk,...
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