Wattpad, an online
reading room, wants to print books
The Canadian startup thinks it can foretell
which ones will sell
WHEN WATTPAD opened its online reading
room in 2006, its catalogue contained chiefly public-domain tear-jerkers like
“Sense and Sensibility”. It also invited budding Jane Austens to post their own
oeuvres. Readers, particularly young women, flocked to the site. It now draws
70m monthly active users. Include poems, novellas and serial chapters, and its
virtual shelves buckle under 565m texts in over 50 languages. Now it wants to
turn some of them into print.
Full Info | https://www.economist.com/business/2019/04/06/wattpad-an-online-reading-room-wants-to-print-books
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