{"id":167689,"date":"2010-01-11T22:12:29","date_gmt":"2010-01-12T03:12:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stoth.com\/2010\/01\/11\/wattpad-boosts-ebook-community-with-new-funds\/"},"modified":"2010-01-11T22:12:29","modified_gmt":"2010-01-12T03:12:29","slug":"wattpad-boosts-ebook-community-with-new-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/167689","title":{"rendered":"Wattpad boosts ebook community with new funds"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"wattpad<\/a>Popular ebook community Wattpad today announced an undisclosed amount of angel funding from various private investors. Wattpad, the self proclaimed “YouTube for ebooks + MySpace for writers”, is a social platform where readers and writers can connect by sharing their writing or reviews on ebooks.<\/p>\n

The platform is completely community driven, users upload and share all content. For writers, Wattpad is especially enticing as it allows for them to easily share their writings and gain feedback and suggestions.<\/p>\n

The company notes that all content can be accessed in several ways, including Wattpad’s website (www.wattpad.com), mobile site (m.wattpad.com) or through the Wattpad application supported on all mobile devices including Apple iPhone, Google Android, RIM BlackBerry, Nokia, Motorola, Sony Ericsson, Samsung, LG and more.<\/p>\n

Currently, Wattpad can account for over 25,000 monthly uploads from its ebook library and proclaims that “billions of pages will be read by its community on the web and mobile devices.”<\/p>\n

Funding will be used to continue growth in the new year around their mobile and ebook sectors as well as expand on engineering, marketing and business development.<\/p>\n

The company didn’t disclose the amount of funding. The round was lead by Harvey Beck and Alan Levine, former co-CEOs of ICOM and Bert Amato, co-founder of Delrina.<\/p>\n

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Popular ebook community Wattpad today announced an undisclosed amount of angel funding from various private investors. Wattpad, the self proclaimed “YouTube for ebooks + MySpace for writers”, is a social platform where readers and writers can connect by sharing their writing or reviews on ebooks. The platform is completely community driven, users upload and share […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}