$400M Fiction Giant Wattpad Wants To Be Your Literary Agent

After has since been read more than 1.5 billion times on Wattpad. It's now a bestselling book series, with 11 million copies sold after Wattpad brokered a mid-six-figure deal for Todd with Simon & Schuster. She fully credits Wattpad with getting her in the door. "If I had sent After to any publisher, there's no way they would have even read it," says Todd, 29. Wattpad got paid for its work, taking an estimated 15% of Todd's book earnings-about what a typical literary agent would charge-and it's also a co-producer of the After movie that began production in June. The lucrative evolution from Wattpad post to mainstream book to Hollywood movie is precisely what Wattpad wants to see more of.