Sell anywhere. Keep $8.
Readers trust the checkout, buy in seconds, then start reading. Free stories can earn from advertising. We only win when you do.
People already publish here.
On your behalf.
It made the papers.
Daily Mirror Feature
Sri Lanka's only free press bet on us.
Publication: Daily Mirror
Section: News Features
News Features Q&A on AngryPages, Lehan Edirisinghe, and exporting Sri Lankan stories, ideas, and intellectual property.
Published:
Author: Kamanthi Wickramasinghe
Interviewee: Lehan Edirisinghe, Media Platform Owner
Headline: “Sri Lanka should start exporting stories, ideas and intellectual property”
Pull quote: “AngryPages Inc is a publishing company (not another social network) in California, with IP sheltered in our Delaware AngryPages Holdings Inc. AngryPages.com is an Intellectual Property Piggy Bank, which will grow, with every story you save, compounding as a permanent asset you can earn with for life. Finally a really cool way for Sri Lankans to export ideas anywhere”
Summary: Daily Mirror’s News Features Q&A profiles AngryPages Inc., a live California-based media platform founded by Sri Lankan entrepreneur Lehan Edirisinghe. The article describes AngryPages as a permanent library for long-form, diary-style storytelling, designed to monetise original content from Sri Lankan writers and reach the high-value U.S. reading market.
Topics covered: inspiration behind AngryPages; why it is called AngryPages; the concept and objective of the platform; U.S. readership; investor strategy; how Sri Lankan writers can contribute; writer benefits; copyright concerns; technical challenges; and Sri Lanka exporting stories, ideas, and intellectual property.
Source URL: https://www.dailymirror.lk/news-features/Sri-Lanka-should-start-exporting-stories-ideas-and-intellectual-property/131-337550
It keeps growing.
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$165
authors' book sales
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$132
owed to authors after fees (80%)
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3.48M
total requests · 30 days
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273.98K
unique visitors · 30 days
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6
countries bought books
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1,549,861
words published
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15,869
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Stand out.
What your 20% buys.
Sell the truth you believe.
AngryPages® publishes from California, the Golden State. People don’t buy AI slop. They vote for truth.
Don’t waste your life.
Posts, photos and files are source material. We design, package and position them. A book gives your name weight.
Keep your story safe.
Your work is backed up, protected — by a company who answers. Pages open in under 3 seconds. We aim for 1 second.
Give somebody a book with their name on it.
Help a partner publish. They keep 50%. You earn 30% forever. We keep 20%.
Without real infrastructure Cheap hosting fails. WordPress plugins break. A DigitalOcean server that never ran a backup can erase years of writing in an afternoon.
With AngryPages We run Python, PostgreSQL, Redis, and AWS with backups, monitoring, and security, so what you publish stays published.
You should not have to buy an enterprise stack alone. We buy it once, and every creator uses the same rails. That costs less than renting Bluehost, WP Engine, or Ghost Pro and still risking lost files.
Without real speed A weak server loads slowly. A reader in another country watches a spinner, then leaves before the first paragraph.
With AngryPages We deliver pages through Akamai, Cloudflare, AWS, and nginx, and we aim for under three seconds.
Distance should not decide who finishes your work. Edge delivery and capacity for traffic spikes are part of the product, not an upgrade you buy later. Setups like this often cost hundreds of dollars a month on their own.
Without a real legal home One complaint or scare email can be enough for Medium, Facebook, or X to take a piece down to protect themselves. In places with weaker free-speech rules, hard lawful writing is easier to suppress.
With AngryPages AngryPages is a California company with a First Amendment posture, anti-SLAPP culture, and process for DMCA and legal complaints. It is not a silent ban button.
We publish from the United States on purpose. California’s anti-SLAPP tools are among the strongest in the country, and lawful hard writing is treated as product, not as a liability to delete first.
Without real rails PayPal can freeze funds. Patreon can hold payouts. Small processors can refuse a country. Writers sell work and still never get paid.
With AngryPages Readers pay through Stripe. We bank with Choice Financial. International transfers go through JPMorgan Chase, with Visa, Mastercard, and Amex at checkout.
A writing business needs ordinary commercial rails, not a hobby wallet. Building that yourself is slow and expensive. We already built it into the platform.
Without a real exit Leaving Substack or Medium often means starting over. WordPress and Ghost exports are incomplete. Facebook and X keep the history, and you keep screenshots.
With AngryPages You can import work from Substack, Medium, WordPress, Ghost, X, and Facebook. When the automated move is not enough, a person helps.
Your back catalog is an asset. You should launch with it already live. Hands-on help is $1 per minute.
If you bring someone worth publishing, you share in what their work earns: 50% for the writer, 30% for you and 20% for AngryPages.
Without real ad ops Medium, Facebook, and X make money from free work. Most writers never get into Google, Meta, or Amazon ads on their own.
With AngryPages We pursue those ad paths for eligible free posts. When an ad pays, you keep half.
Free writing can earn without turning every page into a billboard. We handle the network side for Tier 1 work and for eligible Tier 2 work.
Trusted with something real.
Tenali Tashiya10-year-old author
“Lehan, you’re part of the family.” — Nilmini, Tenali’s mother
Quintus AndradiNavy memoir
“I leave everything to you to do as you think is best.”Two unfinished scripts and photographs became a 94-page Navy memoir.
Koshitha GunadasaAdvertiser · Treats CMB
“We run ads everywhere. AngryPages puts Treats CMB inside real stories, where people remember us.”
Raja HettiarachchiIMF · Maryland, USA
“I always joked about Lehan’s ‘blog’. But wow — this is serious, well designed, and gives ordinary people a real way to put their work into the world.”
Hemasiri WijayagunawardaneLife story
“HuffPost did not answer. AngryPages gave my life story the care it deserved.”What was just text became a published life story people can now read.
Lehan EdirisingheFounder
“I could not sell my own work anywhere. So I built the publisher I needed.”
“I couldn’t sell my work anywhere. Creativity, truth, art — not brand-safe. So I built AngryPages, in the US. Strong freedom of expression, anti-SLAPP and pro-tech laws. I published 1.5 million words. I’m earning 80% with it. If I can do this, trust me, you can too.”
The trap Markets that only buy polite inventory leave honest creators unpaid and unpublished.
The move Stand up a US publisher under anti-SLAPP and free-expression norms, keep the majority of sales, and prove the lane with a long body of work.
You should not have to incorporate a company to get a fair home for hard material. That home is already open.
“HuffPost didn’t answer. Lehan spent hours with me to perfect my AngryPages™ life story. What was just text, now has 180 story cards, with images, over 20+ chapters. I’m pricing $7.50 to inspire the next gen. Google will index me. Will launch soon. I wish I got this sooner.”
The trap Waiting on legacy outlets that never reply leaves a life’s material stuck as a draft file.
The move Editorial partnership turns raw memoir into chapters, images, a price, and an indexable product ready for readers.
If the story already happened, the missing piece is packaging someone will buy — not another unanswered pitch email.
“We run ads on Uber, FB and Instagram. We spent $1,000 at $5 per 1,000. Soon our premium eclairs got in many real stories. It’s mesmerizing when real people mention us favorably. It normalizes our brand. Fair like TikTok and Google’s $4, but better than $14 Reddit!”
The trap Display on Uber, Meta, and Instagram buys reach that resets when the budget stops.
The move Place the brand inside narrative people choose to finish — favorable context at rates that beat Reddit’s expensive CPM game.
Normalization happens when strangers write you into ordinary life. Buy that, not only another banner.
“I always joked with Lehan about his ‘blog’. But wow, this is a very well-designed, serious platform, which makes it easy for anyone to come up in life. You’ve taken the very best America has to offer — freedom — and bravely given it to everyone.”
The trap Easy to dismiss independent publishing as a hobby site until you inspect the product.
The move Ship design and process serious enough that a career IMF professional treats US free expression as something the platform extends to every writer.
If people who run numbers for a living take you seriously, the tool is ready for people who run sentences for a living.
“I leave everything to you to do as you think is best.”
The trap A signalman's life sat in two unfinished scripts and a folder of photographs, with no publisher, no budget for marketing, and no way to hand it to his grandchildren.
The move We amalgamated both scripts, cut them into chapters, placed his photographs, wrote the editorial review, built the author page, and priced it at $10.
15 copies sold at $10.00 in the first 36 days online — $150 in sales. He keeps 80% of every sale.
“She is so blessed to hear these kind of encouraging words from you. Your support uncountable. I have no words. Lehan you’re part of the family. My daughter had a dream of a movie, I can’t believe you’ve animated it!”
The trap A ten-year-old writes a story about a crocodile who wants to fly, and it stays a school project nobody outside the family will ever read.
The move Scales, the Kind Crocodile went live with a Sinhala translation, an author page, and her own account — held by her mother, priced at $5.
3 copies sold at $5.00 in the first 28 days online — $15 in sales. Her best friend sent a review by message; it sits on the book's page, in his own words, next to the buy button.
The most authentic story is your own.
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Too big for one page. Better as years.
Start with 2020. Then move forward into fortification, collapse, overload, publication pressure, and payoff.
Volume 1 · Start here
2020: Business Is My Religion
Food, family pressure, cyber deals, banks, religion, TV mythology, and Covid fear start moving as one operating system.
Volume 2 · Proof machine
2021: The Machine Gets Stranger
Business ambition, political pressure, spiritual language, customer proof, and private war logic harden into product.
Volume 3 · Collapse
2022
Protests, petrol anger, appetite, and national breakdown turning into systems thinking.
Open Volume 3Volume 4 · Overload
2023
Kitchens, burgers, Halo, Barbie, OpenAI, missiles, branding, and appetite without restraint.
Open Volume 4Volume 5 · Publication pressure
2024
Leaks, war rooms, debate rage, election mythology, and publication becoming part of the story.
Open Volume 5Volume 6 · Payoff year
2025
Coding, legal structure, food tests, U.S. scouting, and AngryPages turning from plan into platform.
Open Volume 6Real people recur here.
Real people, Colombo figures, institutions, and pressure points recur across years.
Open Names
