There are several sites where you can read books online. It’s a good idea to try them, and eventually pick up a favorite one, if you don’t want to rely only on reviews, likes and faves. Here are the most popular ones. Amazon There are two ways to read books on Amazon site: Look Inside and Kindle for the Web. Look InsideYou can use this feature no matter which book form you want to buy, print orKindle. Just go to a book page and check whether there is a Look Inside! arrow on top of a cover (like on a picture). Click on it...

From the Wattpad blog.  I just checked and Bluefire and Kobo don't seem to be available in the Fire store, however: Update: Wattpad App Available in the Kindle Fire app store! Dec. 21st Update: We’ve got great news! Starting this week, the Wattpad app is officially available in the Kindle Fire app store. Happy reading! Nov. 24th *Edit*: You can still enjoy Wattpad on Kindle Fire! Follow these simple steps to install the app. Nov. 16th *Edit*: Unfortunately, we just found out that Wattpad is currently NOT available in the Kindle Fire app store as expected. Please stay tuned for our next update -...

From the Wattpad blog: With the launch of Kindle Fire today, Wattpad is thrilled to provide a new way for users to access the best place to discover and share stories. The Wattpad app for Kindle Fire is designed to give the best entertainment experience for millions of Kindle readers. Users can: read over 2 million stories for free comment, vote, and interact with other readers read a story, watch videos, and view images shared by writers and their fans engage with the largest writing community online Wattpad is one of the most downloaded eReading apps, with over 1 million downloads each month. “Currently, two-thirds of our users are on...

Congratulations!!!!  From the Wattpad blog: Five years ago today, Wattpad was founded in a garage with a vision to change the way we share stories. In 2006 there were no Kindles or iPhones and stories were told in books. When we launched our first mobile app andwattpad.com, we wanted to create the world’s best place for every reader and writer to share and discover stories. Today, Wattpad’s dynamic community has become much greater than we ever could have imagined. What was started as a way to read has become a global society of highly engaged readers, who interact from all over...

Today, Wattpad and beActive Entertainment launch a new transmedia project on the Wattpad app and wattpad.com. Readers will discover a layered eReading experience where the novel “Aisling’s Diary” will be available on the same screen as the story’s film adaptation. Each chapter of “Aisling’s Diary” and a corresponding webisode will be syndicated onto Wattpad’s platform weekly for several months. Readers can connect directly with the fictional characters through Wattpad’s social network, Twitter and Facebook, adding an additional layer of dynamic social interaction to the experience. The transmedia series centers around teenaged narrator Aisling – an Irish American teen obsessed with dance who is...

From Quill & Quire: Wattpad, the Toronto-based Internet company that allows readers and writers to connect and share their work online, has completed a new round of funding, including an investment from Union Square Ventures, the New York company whose online investments include heavyweight websites such as Twitter, Tumblr, and Foursquare. The investment from Union Square is part of $3.5 million for Wattpad that also includes money from Toronto’s Golden Venture Partners and Vancouver’s W Media Ventures, which has worked in the past with AbeBooks. More details in the article....

From the Wattpad blog.  Congrats!  I was supposed to go into NYC today to scope out the Wattpad meet up for you, but the transportation mess here in New Jersey will prevent me from doing that.  Here's the post: When Ivan and I started Wattpad a few years ago, we were working in my basement, coding our mobile apps and website with the hope that readers and writers would see what what we could: that Wattpad was the best way to share and discover stories. We are thrilled to say that today the 1 Millionth user has just agreed with us!...

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From a Wattpad press release: Wattpad has released an advance look at the 2011 Q1 metrics report which, in addition to examining broader eReading consumption habits, reveals new trends and popular genres. Over 150,000 new stories are uploaded to Wattpad every month, providing insight into readers’ preferences and habits across over 1,000 different mobile devices, tablets and PCs. Trends in Genres & Categories -Wattpad saw incredible growth in Short Stories (with ~20,000 titles total), as readers look for shorter titles to read quickly without investing in full‐length novels. ‐ The most substantial genre growth was in Humor which now has over 51,000 titles and surpassed the growth in Vampire (44%) and Paranormal (62%),...

The Amazon Web Services outage took our website down for almost two days before we were able to migrate Wattpad’s content, user libraries and infrastructure to new servers. During the outage, we heard very little from Amazon, a lot from users and even more from online media. Some of the loudest voiced questions about the validity of cloud providers for business owners. Are the conveniences of the cloud worth the risk of possible outages? In short, Yes. Wattpad is a young business that is expanding by 300% a year. For us and other new start ups, hosting our own servers would distract our...

From the press release: Wattpad, the world's most social eBook community continues to expand their leading mobile presence with the announcement that a Wattpad application will be available in time for the release of the HP TouchPad. The Wattpad app is downloaded over 1 million times per month across 1000 different devices as readers search out new content and ways to connect with their favorite authors and other readers. Last month, Apple included the Wattpad app in its list of Top 100 Apps of all time and Wattpad has been the number one free eReading app on BlackBerry's App World for...