Wattpad Launches Innovative “Authors In Charge Program” For Its Ebook Community

Authors Can Now Identify and Remove Infringing Material With Participation From New York Times Best Selling Authors

Toronto, Canada, April 29, 2009 — Wattpad, the world’s most popular ebook community, today announced an innovative pilot program for authors to identify and remove copyright infringing material. It is the first user-generated content community to take such an initiative in order to protect content owners and at the same time support creative uses of the service for both writers and readers.

Participating authors will be given the privilege to immediately remove any works created by them but uploaded without their permission. While Wattpad already monitors user uploads, due to the high volume it is not possible to screen and verify all uploaded content, the Authors In Charge Program will allow removal of copyright infringing material accurately and in a timely manner.

Participating authors include New York Times and USA Today best selling authors such as Karen Chance and Lisa Kleypas. The program will be expanded over the coming months.

More information about Wattpad Authors In Charge Program is available online at www.wattpad.com/faq#aicp.

About Wattpad

Founded in 2006, Wattpad’s mission is to revolutionize the way people publish and read written works. The material on Wattpad is created by the community of users. Anyone can upload whatever they want to read – a romantic story, a fan fiction, poetry, an essay, a joke, a novel or their own work – and share with the community. All the content can be easily accessed on Wattpad’s website (www.wattpad.com), mobile site (m.wattpad.com) or through the Wattpad application on virtually all feature phones, such as Nokia, Motorola, Sony Ericsson, Samsung, LG, Sharp, Sanyo, Panasonic, as well as smartphones such as Symbian, Blackberry and Apple iPhone / iPod Touch.

Wattpad has experienced explosive growth since its inception. Wattpad is now the world’s most popular destination to publish, read and share books. Wattpad has delivered billions of pages from its library of over 100,000 ebooks created by the community. With over 3 million downloads, Wattpad is the most popular mobile ebook application of all time.

For more information, please visit www.wattpad.com.
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