Poets & Writers

Wattpad Surges Into Print

and media companies are constantly adapting print content for digital platforms, Wattpad, an online storytelling community with seventy million active writers and readers worldwide, is expanding to print. In January the company announced the launch of Wattpad Books, a new book-publishing arm that will release its first titles, six young adult novels drawn from the site’s most engaging reads, in August. Twenty more titles, all works of fiction, are slated for publication in 2020. Wattpad was founded in 2007 by Allen Lau and

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