Wattpad, the Toronto-based Digital publishing company, has just announced that it is going to launch a new publishing division, Wattpad Books. Wattpad Books will be a digital imprint, that will publish selected stories from the Wattpad site.
The online community was founded in 2006, as a global storytelling social platform. The company has got a huge collection of original stories and fanfiction, from millions of users from around the world, few of which have become the basis for many streaming hits. The Netflix’s ‘Kissing Booth’ and Hulu’s ‘Light as a Feather’ are ones of those fiction stories that have been taken from Wattpad and was a huge hit among the youngsters.
Noticeably, Wattpad is quite popular among young adults, and the headcount of the member of this community is estimated to be 70 million, with an average screen timing of 22 billion minutes per month.
The company has aimed at publishing six titles under the new publication, Wattpad Books, by the fall of this year. The six titles include:
1. ‘The QB Bad Boy & Me’ by Tay Marley (having over 26.3 million reads),
2. ‘Trapeze’ by Leigh Ansell (having 2.5 million reads),
3. ‘What Happened That Night’ by Deanna Cameron (having over 1 million reads),
4. ‘Cupid’s Match’ by Lauren Palphreyman (having 46.4 million reads),
5. ‘Saving Everest by Sky Chase’ (having 17.2 million reads),
6. ‘I’m a Gay Wizard by V.S. Santoni’ (having 404,000 reads).
The first book and the most popular one, The QB Bad Boy & Me, will be out soon after August 20, 2019, followed by other five publishes within September and October, at retailers across North America, with Macmillan (U.S. distributor), and Raincoast Books (Canadian distributor).
The company stated in its press release, “Readers will find new genres, category-bending spins on traditional genres, narratives that tackle the experiences and struggles of marginalized communities, and stories that speak to the diversity of Wattpad’s global community online.”
The company has already worked with various publications and entertainment companies, before, who have adopted many of the Wattpad stories and turned them into books and movies. But, this time launching its own publication, Wattpad has taken an initiative, which might bring a revolution in the publishing and media industries.
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