Schedule uploading, and your chapters show up on Fresh list, giving you access to the direct access to the readers. Tapas has the forum that is directly connected to the publishing end.
Basically, for comparison, I started my story on Wattpad on July 24th, went out of my way with read for reads, and got 1.4K reads, almost none of them organic.
And once the forum got deleted, most of my stories dropped to zero reads, except the ones my friends read. Because the forum was where the small accounts could find what few reads they could get on Wattpad.
Last week, I had one story added on Wattpad to a reading list of the major ambassador account with 500K subs (Romance!) and someone with 10K followers recommended it on TwitterâI got 7 reads on that story after that. Seven.
Here, I started on August 4th, and I have 62 subs, 2.1K reads, easily breaking the 50 reads per day minimum I couldnât achieve on Wattpad in 3 years of extreme forum, clubs, reads and Twitter activity. The only time I saw myself cresting it was on one book that got featured in 2019 while it was on WPâs reading list.
Basically, to be read on Wattpad you need to be a social media star, do serious read for reads to the tune of a few hours a day or be noticed by headquarters among the literally 200 million books (I think thatâs an outdated number) they have.
And, save for Being social media star, nothing gives you the growing organic reads there with the current broken algorithm. People simply donât see you.
On the downside, IF you made it on Wattpad to the tune of over 100K reads, they will likely keep accumulating long after you finish the book. Here, I am told, once the book is done, the reads dry up.
Tapas interface stripping your formatting is bad. Not being able rearrange the order of chapters is also bad. Not having in-line comments is both good and bad.
TL;DR if you are social media darling, you will make it anywhere. If you have a YA, OwnVoice Diversity book that you think will get HQ on Wattpad to give you Watty, Paid deal or publication, Wattpad is worth trying. If you are a small author without social media hopes, tapas will help your work to be read for just posting by at least a few people, while you will get zero on Wattpad