User:Jggouvea/Recanto das Letras

Recanto das Letras (Letters' Corner, in Portuguese) is a social networking website for aspiring writers of any genre based in Brazil. As of September 2011, the site hosts 2,645,053 texts by 48,278 authors. However, since registration is required only for publishing, these figures may not reflect actual relevance. Alexa ranks the site in 24,609th globally and 814th locally (in Brazil only). These figures could have been higher, if the site had not been hosted as a subdomain of www.uol.com.br for years, affecting public awareness of its URL.

Recanto das Letras can be considered a “social network for writers” because it includes features like comments, bookmarking, multimedia, user flagging and content categorization. However, unlike most other social networks users cannot create “communities”, “clans” or “groups of interest”. Moreover, users cannot become moderators (though they can flag content).

Besides textual content, it accepts audio recordings of published texts — which are also streamed through “Radio Poética” (Poetic Radio) — and e-books. Users can opt in for a paid-for service called “Site do Escritor” (Writer's Site), which provides extra features, like rich text formatting, domain name redirection and advertisement for published books or e-books.

Services provided

Visitors can read any published content, including comments. If they have not been redirected, they can find content in a manner of ways:

Public access

• Find author by name
• Author search
• Title search
• Recent content

For subscribers only

Besided managing your own profile, and reading published content, you can:

Free services

• Publish texts (plain text)
• Upload audio recordings
• Upload e-books (txt/doc/rtf/pdf/exe/zip/pps), with separate cover image (gif/jpeg) and synopsis.
• Write in the public advertisement area (“mural”) once a day
• Comment on other users' posts
• Block other users from commenting your posts

Paid services

• Keep a journal
• Include formatting in your texts
• Upload photos
• Sell content (presently only e-books)
• Add background music to pages
• Include links in published content
• Receive prizes and nominations
• Have your profile redirect to a website with your own domain
• Sign up for an e-mail account
• Design your site using an easy site wizard
• Access your site's statistics.

External links

• www.recantodasletras.com.br [1] (in Portuguese)