Amazon is rife with fake authors selling erotica ripped word - for - word from stories posted on Literotica, a popular and free
erotic fiction site that according to Quantcast attracts more than 4.5 million users a month, as well as from other free online story troves.
Since we're prevented from being able to distribute stuff for free on Amazon and Barnes and Noble (well ok, indirectly we can through the latter via Smashwords as long as it is a complete something), I don't know of a good way to pursue this other than from one's own site or some of those
amateur fiction sites like Fictionpress or Wattpad.
This reflects both their enormous, crossover appeal and the fact Shanda Literature, China's most popular
original fiction site, is part of the country's biggest online gaming company and therefore understands the nature and opportunities of the web better than most established publishers.
It's likely that the web fiction writers of the future would treat web fiction as this thing you do when you're writing a novel — it's fun, dynamic, and very fulfilling, but when the novel's done you close off the
web fiction site and turn that into a landing page for your ebook.
On October 29, 2015, Amazon launched Kathryn's Kindle Worlds
Fan Fiction site WORLD OF DE WOLFE PACK.
But the abundance of digital books and the instant access to great material provided by ebooks, fan
fiction sites, and reader - centric platforms like Wattpad and Goodreads might mean that avid bibliophiles can afford to get caught up in the story more deeply than before.
You can visit Joanna at her non-fiction site, The Creative Penn, or
her fiction site, J.F. Penn..
We had our first repeat guest on the show today, urban fantasy author Carolynn Gockel (writing as C. Gockel) from Episode 19, where we chatted about permafree books, getting started on fan
fiction sites, using Tumblr to promote, and where to buy sponsorships.
The authors» original works were not genuinely infringed upon (since many of the fan
fiction sites are not selling content, but rather allowing their writers to openly share their story visions for free), and hosts of reader - fans have a new story angle to explore.
I have considered it for this site — and have done it for
my fiction site.
Pirates can lift books right off fan
fiction sites or Amazon, so why would they want somebody's first draft?
Now, in a move that Good e-Reader has suggested for authors like JK Rowling, among others, Smith has found a home for her work on her series in Amazon's Kindle Worlds fan
fiction site, allowing even the original creator of the characters and story line to have fun and success at the same time while breathing new life into the title.
Fan
Fiction sites and other places had already broadened their reading choices.
Self - publishers are winning followers by fan
fiction sites and blogs: Some time ago, people thought that the books being produced were so many for there to be enough people to read them.
At the time, serials were most often found on the edges of the traditional book publishing industry, at fan -
fiction sites and other niche communities.
Another example of such mavens is the reader who hangs out on fan
fiction sites.
We have also seen the rise of fan -
fiction sites (one of which helped create Fifty Shades) and writer development sites such as Wattpad and Movellas.
One example is Kindle Worlds, which is a paid fan -
fiction site that Amazon set up a while back.
This has also happened at least once or twice to fan
fiction sites, although with less success at stamping out the practice which is not as purely derivative.