Facts You Should Know About Wattpad.
- More than 40 Million stories to read.
- 25 Million “wattpadders” and growing.
- 6 Billion minutes spent on Wattpad every month.
Go Green Policy.
- Wattpad helps reducing paper consumption, saves energy in book production and eliminates the need for packaging materials, saves fuel for transportation, and reduces the energy needed to recycle paper books.
- By reading on Wattpad you are saving the planet! saving 7 million trees from being packaged up into printed stories that once you read them are more likely to end in a book shelve for the rest of its life.
- Wattpad is available in over 50 languages.
- Around 63% of users are located outside North America.
- 77% Wattpad’s content is written in English.
- Some Wattpad users often volunteer to translate their favourite stories into other Languages. (i.e: “The Accidental Skype Call” by LouisYouHottie, with more than 8.8 million reads, has been translated into more than 6 languages such as German, Turkish, Dutch or Tagalog.
- Wattpad was launched in December 11th, 2006.
- Allen Lau and Ivan Yuen are its Founders
- Wattpad is the world’s LARGEST community of readers and writers.
- Wattpad was an original idea based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
- Wattpad’s original idea was to revolutionize the way people write, read or share their stories.
- Wattpad can be consumed by adults and kids, however its largest range of users are mostly teenagers.
- It’s considered to be the biggest under the radar eliterature community on the web.
- Wattpad hosts an annual competition called “The Watty Awards” or “The Wattys” in which wattpaders enter their story in three different categories:Original Fiction, Pop Fic, and FanFic. These Awards recognize the most popular content on Wattpad, winners are chosen by a jury of expert wattpaders who are active in the community.
- In The Wattys Awards of 2013, one of the finalists was chosen to work with Sourcebooks editors and have their work developed for possible publication.
- The Wattpad Prize defines itself as “the first contest to celebrate the achievements of both readers and writers in the community.” The most dedicated, experienced and engaged readers on the community will be chosen to be a part of the jury and these wattpaders review the stories submissions for originality, creativity, structure and grammar. Winners will be awarded withThe Wattpad Prize Writer Award, a mailed hardcover copy of their winning story, an official congratulatory letter, and be featured on the Wattpad website and mobile apps for a month.
- In order to access to Wattpad’s content you must register. [You can do it here.]
- Wattpad has one of the largest ranges of writing categories among the web. On Wattpad you can read stories tagged in categories such as: Romance, Fantasy, Paranormal, Horror, Historical Fiction, Fan Fiction, PopFic, Short Story, Spiritual, Classics, Science Fiction ,Humor, Mystery / Thriller, Action, Adventure, Teen Fiction, ChickLit, Poetry, Vampire, Werewolf, General Fiction, Non-Fiction, Others.
- If you have any doubt about in which category your story fits in you can check Wattpad’s Content Categories here.
- Famous celebrities such as Eva Longoria have confessed themselves addicted to some Wattpad Series such as Georgetown Academy.
- Recently wattpad encouraged their users to get involved in a project which aimed to help readers all around the world enjoy the literary classics in new ways. Readers could reimagine and reinvent book covers for such timeless tales such as Jane Eyre’s, Dickens Charlotte
- To help spread awareness about AIDS, on World AIDS Day, Wattpad partnered with the Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation (ETAF) and put together a reading list that shares real stories of people living with HIV and AIDS.
You can read these moving stories here: Living with HIV/AIDS reading list.
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