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[http://www.wattpad.com/about Wattpad] is a social networking mobile site for aspiring writers, editors, and avid book readers. Wattpad is also a database of over 5 million self published stories that anyone can read and potentially edit. Wattpad was created in 2006 in Toronto, Canada as a partnership between [http://www.makingthingsoutofnothing.com/ Allen Lau] and Ivan Yuen. In February 2007, Lau and Ivan created a mobile application of Wattpad that was supplied with 17,000 stories through an e-book project entitled [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Gutenberg Project Gutenburg]. In the year 2009, Wattpad's mobile application expanded to mobile platforms such as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BlackBerry BlackBerry], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPhone iPhone], and the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPad iPad]. Now Wattpad is a successful social community of readers and writers where nearly 500,000 books are created every month. | [http://www.wattpad.com/about Wattpad] is a social networking mobile site for aspiring writers, editors, and avid book readers. Wattpad is also a database of over 5 million self published stories that anyone can read and potentially edit. Wattpad was created in 2006 in Toronto, Canada as a partnership between [http://www.makingthingsoutofnothing.com/ Allen Lau] and Ivan Yuen. In February 2007, Lau and Ivan created a mobile application of Wattpad that was supplied with 17,000 stories through an e-book project entitled [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Gutenberg Project Gutenburg]. In the year 2009, Wattpad's mobile application expanded to mobile platforms such as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BlackBerry BlackBerry], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPhone iPhone], and the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPad iPad]. Now Wattpad is a successful social community of readers and writers where nearly 500,000 books are created every month. | ||
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Revision as of 20:39, 7 October 2012
Wattpad is a social networking mobile site for aspiring writers, editors, and avid book readers. Wattpad is also a database of over 5 million self published stories that anyone can read and potentially edit. Wattpad was created in 2006 in Toronto, Canada as a partnership between Allen Lau and Ivan Yuen. In February 2007, Lau and Ivan created a mobile application of Wattpad that was supplied with 17,000 stories through an e-book project entitled Project Gutenburg. In the year 2009, Wattpad's mobile application expanded to mobile platforms such as BlackBerry, iPhone, and the iPad. Now Wattpad is a successful social community of readers and writers where nearly 500,000 books are created every month.
