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Post by writeway on Jan 25, 2019 3:45:46 GMT
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Post by K'Sennia Visitor on Jan 25, 2019 4:45:00 GMT
Cool! Thanks for sharing.  I signed up for their email list as a writer. I'll be interested to see how it goes. My feeling is that a very small subset of writers will ever be published by them, and I have no idea how favorable publishing contracts will be. But it's an interesting development anyway. |
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Post by kateelizabeth on Jan 25, 2019 20:50:54 GMT
Another writer friend of mine suggested that I sign up and post some stuff. Well, I signed up, couldn't figure out how to post stories, meant to read some work, and promptly forgot all about it. I'm not even sure what my password was.
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Post by K'Sennia Visitor on Jan 25, 2019 23:50:04 GMT
I've heard that Wattpad is great if you write YA romance or YA fantasy/sci-fi with lots of romance elements. I believe the majority of readers are tweens and teens who don't have a credit card and who mainly pirate/read for free. It's good for getting instant feedback from your audience, but very few reads will turn into sales. It will be interesting to see how well Wattpadd does at making sales. If they're counting on their mass freebie readers to buy them they may be disappointed. But perhaps they plan on mass marketing off Wattpadd to book buyers.
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Post by dormouse on Jan 26, 2019 0:35:06 GMT
If they've got any sense, what they'll really be marketing is their algos.
If they analyse their data right, they'll know a lot about the books they have that have done well (& their readers). They're in an ideal position to know how to market them, and as they get more feedback from sales etc they will be able to tweak what they are doing.
I wasn't at all clear whether they were going to market them as ebooks.
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Post by robertlcollins on Jan 26, 2019 16:11:21 GMT
"Expert Assistance" was a featured story on Wattpad for years. I garnered a good number of reads, votes, and comments,, but all that attention didn't turn into sales. It was and still is more a place to read work for free than a site for authors to find readers who will buy their books.
I wonder if this publishing venture is as much to increase Wattpad's visibility as it is to get books published. After all, if you see a "Wattpad Book" in a store, you might be curious what this Wattpad thing is. You go, you find much more to read, and you sign up. Getting more members makes the site more valuable for many reasons. Now that I write that, I think that's probably the deal.
There are some good people over there, so I hope this goes well for Wattpad, and for the authors being published.
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I signed up for their email list as a writer. I'll be interested to see how it goes. My feeling is that a very small subset of writers will ever be published by them, and I have no idea how favorable publishing contracts will be. But it's an interesting development anyway. 
