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The Fourth Time is the Charm: Wattpad to Interrupt Stories With Adverts

17 August, 2016 // 5 Comments

Wattpad styles itself a community, but it has the same problem as any other site which hosts content: money. Over the past few years the social reading community has dabbled in several ways to [Read More ...]

Lit-Era.com Promises a Paid Alternative to Wattpad

15 August, 2016 // 2 Comments

Wattpad has carved a niche for itself as a community where writers can publish a work in sections, polishing it as they go, before putting the work up for sale elsewhere. Now a Russian site plans to [Read More ...]

How to Read on Android Wear

31 January, 2016 // 5 Comments

Last night's post on the PDF-reading app for your smartwatch got me thinking about the general difficulty in finding information about reading on smartwatches. Sure, there's the single post here or [Read More ...]

Are Readers Really That Conservative?

27 January, 2016 // 7 Comments

A few days ago Livemint published a long interview of John Makinson, the chair of Penguin Random House (he was also the head of Penguin when it engaged in the price-fixing conspiracy in 2010). [Read More ...]

Kobo Adds New Section for eBooks Originally Published on Wattpad

28 December, 2015 // 5 Comments

Authors have long been relying on the Wattpad community to help refine their stories before formally publishing them, and now Kobo is drawing on that connection. The ebook retailer has launched a [Read More ...]

Wattpad Releases a Windows 10 App; Kobo, Kindle, & Others Release Updates

23 December, 2015 // 0 Comments

Wattpad announced a new app today, and a whole host of other developers have released updates (mostly for their iOS apps). First up is the Windows 10 app which will let you read, write, and share [Read More ...]

Publisher and Bookseller Partner to Solve the Unwanted Gift Problem

21 December, 2015 // 0 Comments

A German trade publisher has partnered with a bookseller and come up with a new twist on the idea of book vending machines, one which will give German readers an alternative to returning the ugly [Read More ...]

Wattpad Now Lets Authors Trick Out Their Stories With GIFs, Youtube Embeds

20 November, 2015 // 0 Comments

Ever looking for new ways to help writers tell stories, Wattpad has released a cover-making app, and earlier this year they added background soundtracks as an option. And now: With the new feature, [Read More ...]

Book Club App Novellic is Poised to Threaten Goodreads, BookLikes

12 October, 2015 // 7 Comments

A new book club platform by the name of Novellic is launching soon with plans to challenge Goodreads. From the press release: The new multiplatform app and web service aims to help readers form new [Read More ...]

Explainer: What is Fanfiction?

7 October, 2015 // 0 Comments

Consider yourself a stranger to fanfiction? It’s unlikely. If you’ve read E.L. James' 50 Shades of Grey (2011) then you already have at least one title under your belt. If you caught Robert [Read More ...]

Hooked is a New Take on Flash Fiction

17 September, 2015 // 3 Comments

Our next example of techies trying to fix that which is not broken by inventing that which already exists is Hooked, a new iPhone app from Telepathic (also available for Apple's Apple Watch). [Read More ...]

MacGuffin is a Writing Community that Combines Audio, Short Works

3 June, 2015 // 0 Comments

Between Wattpad, Jukepop, Widbook, Fanfiction.net, and other sites, there's no shortage of places to post and or read short works. But UK-based Comma Press thinks all those sites are lacking one key [Read More ...]

Wattpad Releases Amazingly Useful iWatch App

14 May, 2015 // 12 Comments

With a screen measuring under 2" diagonally, there isn't much that you can do with a device like Apple's smartwatch but that hasn't stopped some reading app developers from finding ways to use it. [Read More ...]

Facebook’s Internet.org Launches in Indonesia, Brings Wattpad And Controversy With it

20 April, 2015 // 5 Comments

Facebook's Internet.org charity has come under increased criticism of late but that hasn't stopped its expansion plans. On Friday Mark Zuckerberg proclaimed that Internet.org app was now available [Read More ...]

Wattpad Partners with SoundCloud to Add Soundtracks to eBooks

14 April, 2015 // 11 Comments

Wattpad rolled out an update for its Android app yesterday which adds new options for audio soundtracks. The app lets creators embed clips from Soundcloud in their stories, and it also lets [Read More ...]