Wattpad Expands Content Lineup With Inclusion of Over 17,000 EBooks from Project Gutenberg

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Wattpad announces inclusion of over 17,000 eBooks from Project Gutenberg. Close to 25,000 stories are now available in Wattpad's story sharing community for mobile users.

Toronto, Canada (PRWeb) February 21, 2007 -- Wattpad, the global leading story sharing community for mobile users, today announced the immediate availability of 17,000 eBooks from Project Gutenberg. Founded in 1971, Project Gutenberg is the world's first and largest single collection of eBooks. With the new content Wattpad now boasts close to 25,000 stories available to 2 billion mobile users worldwide in 9 languages including English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese.

Since Wattpad's launch our users have uploaded thousands of stories." said Ivan Yuen, Founder of Wattpad. "Now with the inclusion of Project Gutenberg's eBooks, we have one of the world's largest selections of stories for our users."

"The mission of Project Gutenberg is simple: To encourage the creation and distribution of eBooks." said Michael Hart, Founder of Project Gutenberg, when commenting on the Project Gutenberg philosophy. "This mission is, as much as possible, to encourage all those who are interested in making eBooks and helping to give them away." The combination of Wattpad's free service and Project Gutenberg's eBooks makes the largest digitized text library instantly available to the most pervasive consumer electronic device ever.

In January 2007 Wattpad introduced its service for mobile users worldwide to discover, read, and share stories on their mobile phones with highly optimized user experience. With the inclusion of Project Gutenberg's eBooks, Wattpad has a very large variety of stories to choose from. Some of the hot categories and stories include:

* Funny Quotes *
50 Funniest Homer Simpson Quotes
Funny Love & Relationships Quotes
Funny Comedian & Humorist Quotes from Woody Allen and others

* All Time Classics *
A Tale of Two Cities and A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

* Religious *
Streams in the Desert by Mr. and Mrs. Charles Cowman
The Holy Bible - The New Testament (King James Version)

* Science Fiction *
Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, Overclocked (six-story collection including Printcrime, When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth, Anda's Game, I, Robot, I, Row-Boat, and After the Siege) by Hugo Award nominee, Forbes Top 25 "Web Celebrities" Cory Doctorow
Accelerando by Charles Stross
The War of the Worlds, Time Machine, The Invisible Man by H. G. Wells

* Trivia *
33 Names of Things You Never Knew had Names
50 Things Everyone Should Know
40 Facts About Sleep You Probably Didn't Know
Science & Math Trivia & Useless Facts

* Science and Technology *
The World As I See It and Sidelights on Relativity by Albert Einstein

* History *
History of FIFA World Cup
History of Formula One
Martin Luther King Jr. Day Anthology

With mobile phone being the electronic device most people carry all the time, these stories are now instantly accessible by anyone anytime anywhere - whether you are lining up in the bank, commuting in the underground, waiting for the dentist or reading at bedside.

To download Wattpad's mobile application, go to get.wattpad.com on your mobile phone's browser and follow the link to download. Wattpad works with most mobile phones from major manufacturers such as Nokia, Motorola, Sony Ericsson, Samsung, LG, Sharp, Sanyo, and Panasonic.

More information about Wattpad is available online at www.wattpad.com.

About Wattpad

Wattpad was founded in 2006 to lead the revolution of mobile user-generated content. According to research published by Informa Telecoms and Media and the Mobile Entertainment Forum (MEF), the market for mobile user-generated content will be worth US$13.2 billion by 2011. Wattpad was the first company to provide a platform to discover, read, and share stories on mobile phones. Wattpad now has the largest selection of stories available for mobile users. For more information, please visit www.wattpad.com.

About Project Gutenberg and Michael Hart

Project Gutenberg is the first and largest single collection of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and continues to inspire the creation of eBooks and related technologies today.