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Wattpad HQ has announced that their fan convention will return this November with a one-day event in Los Angeles.

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An author under the name Serdar Kan has been ripping off Wattpad stories and reselling them on Amazon's Kindle store.

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Wattpad is killing off its famous Wattpad Stars program for writers in favor of a new system built to reward its most successful creators.

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As of July 29th, 2020, Wattpad shut down the Wattpad Community Forums without notice and left writers with no place to go.

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With the launch of their brand new Wattpad Creators program, Wattpad says they will pay $2.6 million to writers this year.

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We look into Wattpad's "YuenRank" system and how it determines hashtag rankings for books on the site.

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