Wattpad is building on their previous book publishing partnerships and experiments to launch their own book publishing line. Debuting in fall 2019 with six young adult titles, Wattpad Books will be distributed by Macmillan in the US and Raincoast Books in Canada. Ashleigh Gardner leads the division, with recently-hired Deanna McFadden managing operations. But the company says they will rely on machine learning to “identify and publish stand-out stories” from the Wattpad corpus, with the humans adding “special consideration for stories written by diverse authors.” Separately, Wattpad competitor Radish, which focuses on serialized short-form fiction for mobile, has hired Sue […]
