Difference between revisions of "Wattpad"
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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. | 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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| + | In September of 2011, Wattpad received 3.5 million dollars in funding from [http://gigaom.com/2011/09/12/union-square-backs-wattpad-to-make-reading-more-social/ Union Square Ventures] . | ||
Revision as of 20:53, 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.
Origin
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.
Recent Funding
In September of 2011, Wattpad received 3.5 million dollars in funding from Union Square Ventures .
