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Wattpad is a social networking mobile site for aspiring writers, editors, and avid book readers based in Toronto, Canada. Wattpad is also a database of over 5 million self published stories that anyone can read and comment on. The site focuses on reader-to-writer interaction and community based communications between the writers and their readers.
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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/Rewards
In September of 2011, Wattpad received 3.5 million dollars in funding from Union Square Ventures, W Media Ventures, and Golden Venture Partners. In December of 2011, Wattpad was nominated and won an award for innovative digital media at an event called CIX. CIX (Canadian Innovation Exchange) is Canada's people choice awards for start up companies. Within the same year as 2011, Ivan Yuen was selected to be part of the Deloitte Impact Infused Program. The program selects only ten entrepreneurs out of Canada for the award.
Featured Pages
Wattpad features a a list on the front page called the "What's Hot List." The stories placed on the list are selected through the highest number votes. The list changes daily. According to the profiles that exist in Wattpad, most of the authors on the appear to be teenagers. Wattpad also has a "Featured Story" list on the site. The stories selected for this list are read and hand selected by staff members of Wattpad. Most of the authors that are selected are well established professional e-book writers that self-publish their own work.
Notable Writers
Margaret Atwood has been a long time supporter of Wattpad and its cause. Margaret Atwood is a novelist, writer, essayist, literary critic, and a poet. She is one of the most notable writers in Canada, claiming a very extensive list of awards and creating multiple writer's organizations. She is also a promoter of environmentalism.
Abigail Gibbsis a Wattpad writer from Brixham, Devon, in the U.K. She started writing her book, The Dark Heroine, when she was 14. Now at 18 through Wattpad, she amassed a very large amount of readers and over 17 million hits. She has recently signed a six-figure deal with HarperCollins, a publishing company in Britain and America. Her book was inspired by the Twilight series by Stephenie Meyer.
