Amazon introduces Kindle Worlds: [link]
So to recap, Amazon just MONETIZED FREAKING FANFIC
And the thing is, I like my evil like I like my men: evil. You know, straight up, black hat, tied to the train tracks, soon my electro-ray will destroy metropolis BAD.
Buffy ,'Sleeper'
The Great Write Way, Act Three: Where's the gun?
A place for Buffistas to discuss, beta and otherwise deal and dish on their non-fan fiction projects.
Tom Scola - May 22, 2013 7:16:49 am PDT #5671 of 6690
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500
Dana - May 22, 2013 7:20:59 am PDT #5672 of 6690
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
They're not the first ones to try. I'm interested to see how it will shake out with the various restrictions attached.
Amy - May 22, 2013 7:21:58 am PDT #5673 of 6690
Because books.
Maybe I should start watching Vampire Diaries.
§ ita § - May 22, 2013 7:38:43 am PDT #5674 of 6690
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Don't do it, Amy. Trust me.
Does that mean that if you now write TVD fanfic and get monetised any other way you're specifically violating copyright? And maybe if you don't get money at all?
Tom Scola - May 22, 2013 7:42:42 am PDT #5675 of 6690
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500
From what I hear from someone who works there, Alloy Entertainment is not exactly the nicest of publishers. And now they have even more leverage to treat their authors and editors like crap.
Amy - May 22, 2013 8:10:50 am PDT #5676 of 6690
Because books.
Alloy does a lot of packaging, and they're very bottom-line oriented. A lot of those series were developed in house and farmed out to contract writers.
Polter-Cow - May 22, 2013 8:32:25 am PDT #5677 of 6690
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
“We will also give the World Licensor a license to use your new elements and incorporate them into other works without further compensation to you.”
i.e., that really cool creative idea you put in your story, or that awesome new character you made? If Alloy Entertainment likes it, they can take it and use it for their own purposes without paying you — which is to say they make money off your idea, lots of money, even, and all you get is the knowledge they liked your idea.
Dana - May 22, 2013 9:00:36 am PDT #5678 of 6690
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
I pity the poor schmuck who's going to have to go through the slush pile.
hippocampus - May 22, 2013 10:53:25 am PDT #5679 of 6690
not your mom's socks.
Dana - it sounds like there is no slush pile. There's a box full of rules, including no shared worlds, no slash, no ... well pretty much no fanfic in the fanfic. Cleolinda's spot on in her commentary.
Dana - May 22, 2013 11:45:47 am PDT #5680 of 6690
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
But someone will have to read submissions to make sure they conform to those rules, right? (I'm probably using "slush pile" wrong.)