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As mentioned earlier, the attentions of Amazon, at this time, concern the writing community . Finished (for now) the battle against the publishing group Hachette on lowering the price of ebooks, ecommerce giant, to maintain its hegemony editorial, aims to create a social environment based on writing, on the model of Wattpad. That is a platform where users can post their stories – it is stories or novels – receiving feedback and comments. The success of the Canadian Wattpad community has been slow but steady, since its inception, in 2006, but only recently has begun to talk about it, about the visibility that some users have gotten posting their work on this platform (as Anna Todd After ) and an app that makes it accessible literature works mobile and generates traffic that covers 85% of the total.
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Kindle WriteOn test
Home
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Kindle WriteOn test
The literary genres
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Kindle WriteOn test
Comments can be long 10 thousand jokes
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Kindle WriteOn test
The user profile
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Kindle WriteOn test
The writing system
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Kindle WriteOn test
The cover
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Kindle WriteOn test
Please read in page mode
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Kindle WriteOn test
The forum
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Kindle WriteOn test
The home page of Wattpad
It should be called one thing: Wattpad is a social network for writers who owes much of his fortune to fanfiction, or stories that have starring celebrities or characters of narrative universes (they belong in novels or TV series) already exist and, often, bound by copyright. This kind of works, written by young, often not a model of literary virtuosity, do not offer the reader a product of superior regarding editing. But they are still a territory to explore for readers looking for interesting stories, current, and maybe for publishers who want to pick up the latest trends in search of some author to add to its stable.
As mentioned, Amazon responded with a new platform like Wattpad called Kindle WriteOn . A kind of social network for authors, for now in beta and only available in English. Membership is by invitation. I had the opportunity to try WriteOn: following my impressions.
WriteOn looks like a social network for authors simply and intuitively. It offers the same tool Wattpad, often replicated in a more powerful. For example comments: on Wattpad can be long 2 thousand jokes about WriteOn 10 thousand. The home page is quite clear, certainly less chaotic Wattpad, with stories listed by genre or feedback. The genera listed wink to younger users, including fantasy, sci / fi horror we find spirtual , fanfiction , teen fiction and romance . That kind of literature at the turn of the paranormal and the sick lit, so fashionable these days, that mixes fantastic and sentimental.
The creation of a cover inherits the same system Kindle Direct Publishing, less intuitive and slower Wattpad (where you just upload an image from your PC), but with the advantage of presenting various models opzionabili different frame and font for the title and the author’s name. Interesting the chance to read the work in the format “page” or scrollbars. The forum is now populated with topics regarding technical aspects of the platform.
In conclusion, at least on a computer, Kindle WriteOn, in terms of technology, it has nothing to envy to Wattpad. There are some unknowns, however, that make uncertain the success and the eventual passing of the Canadian competitors. The first, obvious consideration is that Wattpad has existed for several years and has managed over time to consolidate a strong community.
Second consideration: the success of the Canadian community is based on a functional app that has begun to think about when the Kindle and the iPhone were not yet on the market; Today this same app was able to polarize the audience of the least well-off as it is also usable on smartphones that are based on Java technology.
If Google + failed to match Facebook, will succeed Amazon Wattpad to gobble up and become the first writing community on the planet?
The answer is not so obvious.
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