Interesting, I hadn’t heard of wattpad. Sounds like substack for serialized fiction except you don’t charge subscription and the idea is to break into your target genre publishing industry? wattpad.com
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They have a “paid stories” model but they control it looks like wattpad.com/paidstories/
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Looks like royal road is premium competitor
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oops royalroad.com
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These seem like vertical versions of Patreon... I think I don't like the communitarian focus or platform level control model. But I can see it would work for community centric writing.
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recently got into seeing if serialize fiction was a workable model, so there’s also royalroad whose top writers make a pretty decent patreon living wattpad.com
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HUGE site, mostly teen/millennial, and 85% mobile!!! 85%!!! Totally destroys the idea teens don't read ebooks (kids/YA ebook sales are small). The goal of the site is really social afaik. Most contributors are hobbyists, having fun &/or learning to write.
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Does "break into your target genre publishing industry" mean "cultivate an audience of readers who will follow you to a paid self-publishing platform like Kindle and give it enough inertia (reviews/purchases) there for it to take off and start making money?" If so, then yeah.
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