Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Worlds Kindle: Amazon addicted to fan fiction - Actualitté.com

This is a new pavement laid in the sometimes stagnant pool of creative writing, and a bold project that offers the Amazon giant. With its new Kindle Worlds platform, the e-commerce giant has to reconcile authors of fan fiction and assigns, while monetizing the creations of amateurs. And created a new market sector.


Once again, the idea is awesome and bold approach. To grasp the full extent, must be familiar with fan fiction : stories of varying length, which include the characters of a series, a film, a book or a video game, in short, a world author develops an amateur hobby. Usually shared through forums, these new and sometimes fanciful stories are very successful, especially as some are particularly inventive.

So far, the practice was tolerated by the beneficiaries, to the extent that the stories were not sold. And this is Amazon arrives with a doubly attractive proposition: the site offers enthusiasts earn royalties by selling their story, and to pay the rights holders. Everything becomes perfectly legal.

rates are fixed at the moment 35% of the total price for the works of more than 10,000 signs, and 20% for those below this figure. The platform will be launched in the month of June.

Amazon purchase in advance licenses different worlds in which it is possible to write. For now, three licenses have been paid by the e-commerce site, all in the lap of Warner Bros. Television: Gossip Girl , by Cecily von Ziegesar, Pretty Little Liars , by Sara Shepard and Vampire Diaries , by LJ Smith. Three sets extremely followed, and unleashed passions.

Including that of writing, no doubt …


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Sources : The Next Web, TechCrunch

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