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Here’s a great review of Wattpad on BerryReview. Let’s extend a warm welcome to all the new BlackBerry users!

We are experiencing problems with our new server and are working furiously to address the problem. Please keep your eye here for further updates. We apologize for any inconvenience.

Update: We’ve now resolved the problem, the site should now be restored!

Over the past week or two, you may have experienced some errors on the Wattpad website. This is because our servers are overloaded. We haven’t been able to keep up with the increased traffic.

The good news is we have upgraded to a brand new server! During the transition, some features have been disabled. All site features should be restored within 24 hours. If you are experiencing any problems, please contact us so we can fix it right away.

For the past week, some stories were not fully accessible on Wattpad Reader. The result was the text ending prematurely, with pages of text missing at the end of the story. The problem was related to a recent server enhancement and should now be fixed. If you are still seeing this problem, please let us know.

Thanks to everyone that reported this problem to us!

We are happy to bring you a series of short stories by British author David Gaffney. His works have been published in Ambit, Stand, Opium and many other places. You don’t want to miss his short and ultra-short stories, which have been described as “little McNuggets of pure gold… writing at its best.”

Sawn-Off Tales

This is about Dixie

Finding Skerryvore

By now you’ve probably read all the news and reviews on Kindle, the Amazon developed ebook reader. Unfortunately it’s sold out until at least after Christmas, with people reportedly paying $1,500 for one. Why wait, you can do all the same things (and more) on your mobile phone with Wattpad Reader:

• choose from tens of thousands of short stories, novels, articles
• it’s wireless, always connected, and no need to connect to your PC

And lots of things you can’t do on Kindle:

• share your own stories, they’re instantly available to all Wattpad users
• speed adjustable scrolling, flipping pages is a thing of the past
• read something interesting? send it to a friend by SMS
• choose your own screen and text colors
• nothing to buy, use your existing phone, Wattpad Reader is free

Get Wattpad Reader

We have just relaunched our mobile site m.wattpad.com Point your phone’s browser there to download Wattpad Reader for your phone. You can also browse the hottest stories and download entire stories to read offline. We’re still fine tuning the new mobile site, so let us know if you have any comments or suggestions!

Earlier today, in just under 8 months since our official launch, we delivered our 25th million page to our mobile users! The Wattpad Team is very excited about this. But we didn’t forget that Wattpad is a community after all. Without our members sharing their works, we wouldn’t be where we are today. So we certainly need to thank the entire Wattpad community for participating!

Amazon is expected to announce their latest e-book service, named Kindle, tomorrow. It will be a wireless device, running on Sprint’s EVDO network, allowing users to download new books while away from the PC (of course Wattpad users have been doing that for a while now) This should be very exciting, we will keep a close eye on this announcement.

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There was a problem earlier today which prevented the Wattpad Reader from connecting to the server. The service was down for about 1 hour. It has now been restored. If you are still having connection problems with Wattpad Reader on your phone, please let us know.