{"id":3887,"date":"2009-11-26T11:02:49","date_gmt":"2009-11-26T16:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=3887"},"modified":"2009-11-26T11:02:49","modified_gmt":"2009-11-26T16:02:49","slug":"wattpadcom-goes-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=3887","title":{"rendered":"Wattpad.com Goes East"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a short\u00c2\u00a0<a title=\"Wattpad crosses borders...\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mediabistro.com\/galleycat\/on\/wattpad_ceo_sees_india_as_digital_book_frontier_144169.asp\" target=\"_self\"><strong>Mediabistro<\/strong><\/a> interview with <a title=\"Reading without borders...\" href=\"http:\/\/wattpad.com\" target=\"_self\"><strong>Wattpad<\/strong><\/a> CEO <strong>Alan Lau<\/strong> and an update on Wattpad.com&#8217;s recent launch of a version of their mobile phone application for the Indian provider, Bharti Airtel.<\/p>\n<p>Lau makes an excellent\u00c2\u00a0point that BHarti Airtel with 110 million subscribers indicates a vast and relatively untapped marketplace (at least from a western perspective). There\u00c2\u00a0are mammoth English speaking populations in India and other countries with British Colonial roots&#8211;numbers that are simply staggering. The Internet is quickly breaking down the boundaries of old world publishing, and\u00c2\u00a0finding new consumers with different habits, histories\u00c2\u00a0and approaches to reading.<\/p>\n<p>If you want a &#8220;WOW THAT&#8217;S INCREDIBLE&#8221; moment\u00c2\u00a0check out this <strong><a title=\"English Speakers\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_countries_by_English-speaking_population\" target=\"_self\">list<\/a><\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0of countries with\u00c2\u00a0English speakers. And then check out the number of English speakers. Wild, <em>yah<\/em>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a short\u00c2\u00a0Mediabistro interview with Wattpad CEO Alan Lau and an update on Wattpad.com&#8217;s recent launch of a version of their mobile phone application for the Indian provider, Bharti Airtel. Lau makes an excellent\u00c2\u00a0point that BHarti Airtel with 110 million subscribers indicates a vast and relatively untapped marketplace (at least from a western perspective). There\u00c2\u00a0are &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=3887\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3887"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3887"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3896,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3887\/revisions\/3896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}