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The company hopes to use this analytical approach when it comes to finding the next hit story. The company says that it has used the system for its Watty Award to deconstruct “stories into their elemental features, such as sentence structure, word use, and grammar employed to find the next best-seller,” before turning the preliminary selections over to human editors.
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The site highlights its approach to selecting fiction, utilizing its Story DNA Machine Learning technology and human editors to help pick notable stories from the company’s vast library of user uploads. Starting in September, the company will launch its first six titles, which range from fantasy to YA to mystery novels. The imprint’s first six titles will hit stores this fallīy launching its own imprint, Wattpad will be able to maintain a hand in the development of the content of its site.
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Wattpad author Anna Todd’s series After (a story based on the band One Direction) became a viral sensation on the site, eventually publishing as a four-book series that hit the New York Times best-seller list, and it has been adapted into a forthcoming film that will debut theatrically. There have been some success stories: the Syfy channel partnered with Wattpad to launch a digital pilot project last summer. 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 fodder for film and television. The company says that it has 70 million registered users, with more than 500 million stories uploaded to its platform. 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.įounded 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.