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WATTPAD

-is a free online storytelling community where users post written works such as articles, stories, fan fiction, and poems, either through the website or the mobile app.

Some trivia’s about wattpad:

  • Wattpad originated in 2006, as the result of a collaboration between Allen Lau and Ivan Yuen.
  • In February 2007, Wattpad announced the addition of over 17,000 e-books from Project Gutenberg making them available to mobile users. According to a June 2009 Wattpad press release, the mobile application had been downloaded over 5 million times. In March 2009, an iPhone version was released. This was followed by the launch on BlackBerry App World in April 2009, Google Android in June 2009 and Apple iPad in April 2010. In December 2015, Windows Phone 8.1 and Windows 10 Mobile Version was released. Currently, Wattpad is being used by more than 50 million people.
  • In December 2011, Toronto-based Wattpad was selected as the hottest Digital Media company in the country at the Canadian Innovation Exchange. In the same year, co-founder and CEO Ivan Yuen was also recognized as a top Canadian entrepreneur at the Impact Infused Awards, sponsored by Deloitte.
  • In March 2014, Wattpad signed a contract with Pop Fiction, an imprint of Summit Media, to print Filipino Wattpad stories in the Philippines.[12] Other publishers from the Philippines also publish stories from Wattpad.

 

For more info’s visit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wattpad

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