Amazon's "Kindle Worlds" lets fan fiction writers sell their stories

 

Thought I'd toss this here for y'all to read. The article says that it should start in June, but not sure what titles will be allowed...would be great if they'd include ASJ on the list! 


We might havta drop 'em a line  and see if we jus' might be able to convince 'em, 'cos we want that ASJ real bad, don't we? 


Should be very interesting to see how this goes.     


http://money.cnn.com/2013/05/23/technology/amazon-fan-fiction/index.html



Here are a couple of the "highlights":


Kindle Worlds, which Amazon Publishing announced on Wednesday, lets authors write "fanfic" based on licensed series and sell their works in the Kindle Store. Authors will receive 35% of net sales for books of 10,000 words or more, and 20% for short stories between 5,000 and 10,000 words. Amazon didn't disclose how the rest of the sales will be split between the company and the copyright holders.



Amazon (AMZN, Fortune 500) plans to add more licensed titles soon. Authors will be able to submit completed works beginning in June, when the Kindle Worlds store will launch with 50 titles Amazon commissioned from successful authors including Barbara Freethy and John Everson.

Well now, wouldn't that be interesting. I'll be keeping my eyes on that.

You could make a killing, Keays!
HW

OH, thank you, HelenWest. I was already thing about re-vamping TOF in order to try and publish it but if this goes through then maybe I won't have to. Just re-edit!

I read an article about this a while ago and then another the other day; one was in The New York Times and the other was on the BBC (the video interview was very interesting).  Unfortunately for us, only fanfic stories whose shows have been licensed to Amazon for this express purpose will be accepted.  All shows so far were produced by Warner Bros.

NYT article

BBC article and video