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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Category: Wattpad
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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As Netflix prepares to stream one Wattpad novel, another is snapped up by Hulu, while a third is at casting
On Friday Netflix will commence streaming a contemporary teen romance that is, according to...
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7 million users in the Philippines as Wattpad’s Tencent-backed Asia plans step up a gear
The Philippines has long been one of Wattpad’s strongholds, but this month comes news from Manila...
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The Hot Sheet Reviewed – third November 2017 edition
The Hot Sheet is a publishing industry news-sheet for authors, produced every two weeks by Porter...
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Wattpad insights
As reported here last week, the Chinese e-commerce titan Tencent is throwing $40 million at...
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