Digital publishing platform Wattpad announced today that it is launching a dedicated book publishing imprint, Wattpad Books, which will use machine learning in part to select stories from the site for publication.
Founded in 2006, Wattpad launched as an online platform for mobile reading, amassing a library of public domain ebooks, and it transformed into an online writing community where writers could post their work. As of last year, the company says that it has 65 million registered users, with more than 400 million stories uploaded to its platform.
With that growth, Wattpad has merged into a “multiplatform entertainment company,” leveraging those hundreds of millions of stories into a vast catalog of potential best-sellers and…
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