Wattpad, acquired by South Korean firm Naver, has about 90 film and TV projects in development. By Etan Vlessing Canada Bureau Chief When South Korean tech giant Naver paid $600 million for ...
After launching its “Paid Stories” program in 2019, the social storytelling platform Wattpad is now replacing it with a new freemium model called “Wattpad Originals” that gives authors the best of ...
t took a less than an hour in 2013 for Anna Todd to change her life. The Army wife and part-time babysitter had spent a lot of time reading fan fiction, stories by amateur writers about existing ...
Steve Jobs famously once said that people don’t read anymore, but it turns out younger people are, in fact, reading quite a lot — just in different ways than expected. Case in point: 70 million ...
President Aron Levitz talks fandom, AI, and storytelling. Toronto’s Wattpad has brought on Chelsea Parry as its head of product as the online storytelling and social media platform gears up for its ...
Wattpad is a website for readers and writers of user-generated stories. It hosts several writing contests each year, and the company has ties with publishing houses, so Wattpad authors can potentially ...
An allegedly stolen Wattpad database containing 270 million records were being sold in private sales for over $100,000. Now it is being offered for free on hacker forums. Wattpad is a web site that ...
In 2007, Allen Lau stepped into a coffee shop in his hometown of Toronto to meet with his business partner, Ivan Yuen. The topic of discussion that day: Decide what to do with Wattpad, their ...
EXCLUSIVE: Two popular Wattpad stories, Jessica Cunsolo’s She’s With Me and H.J. Nelson’s The Last She, are headed to television. They are being developed as potential TV series by Sony Pictures ...