Of course, Amazon's other contributions to innovative reading — like its Kindle Worlds
licensed fan fiction titles — can also be found in a separate section.
Kindle Worlds is a project from Amazon that allows authors to write
licensed fan fiction in any of the licensed world.
In
the licensed fan fiction model established by Kindle Worlds, rights holders for licensed books, movies, or television shows allow their content to be used for the inspiration for works that can later be published on the platform for royalties.
Not exact matches
Which to me, means that even if Amazon scored a
license for say, the XMen World, I wouldn't be submitting any of my XMen
fan fics (Because yes, I have written many of those, most prior to beginning to write original
fiction.
Amazon launched its Kindle Worlds
fan fiction platform just over a year ago, and the concept has been a great success for both the rights holders who
license content to the site and the
fans who adore the concepts and story lines of their favorite authors.
In this instance, pre-approved refers to the
licensing and cooperation of the rights» holder of the original content that sparked the
fan fiction.
Kindle Worlds (http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?ie=UTF8&docId=1001197421) is a new publishing platform recently rolled out by Amazon which allows you to write
fan -
fiction for
licensed shows, and get paid for it.
If Alloy is going to
license fan fic for Gossip Girl, Pretty Little Liars, and The Vampire Diaries through Amazon, can we expect C&D s to
fan fiction archives?
I can't imagine Alloy would be okay with unlicensed, non-revenue-generating
fan fiction of the properties it is
licensing to generate revenue.
-LSB-...] Worlds — the rise of
licensed, for - sale
fan fiction.
The company is making this work by securing
licenses from existing entertainment properties and by paying royalties to both the original author and the
fan fiction author.
Realising there's a part of the internet that's been around even longer than it has that still hasn't been monetised to full effect, Amazon has signed a
licensing deal with Warner Bros. to begin selling officially - sanctioned
fan fiction, above and beyond Marvel's Avengers films (hiyooooo).
Successful writers, who in genre
fiction were already pretty supportive of
fan -
fiction anyway, now have an active reason to support and encourage
fan -
fiction that is
licensed by Amazon.
There was great discussion amongst the author community about what amounts to a
fan fiction portal sponsored through Amazon for «worlds»
licensed by -LSB-...]
The Twitters are abuzz today about Amazon's new «Kindle Worlds» program, in which people are allowed to write and then sell through Amazon their
fan fiction for certain properties owned by Alloy Entertainment, including Vampire Diaries and Pretty Little Liars, with more
licenses expected soon.
Through these
licenses, any writer will be able to create and sell
fan fiction inspired by the popular Worlds of Valiant superhero comic book series Bloodshot, X-O Manowar, Archer & Armstrong, Harbinger, and Shadowman, with more to be added at a later date, as well as Howey's Silo Saga, Eisler's John Rain novels, Crouch's Wayward Pines Series, and the Foreworld Saga.
This is not the first, in fact Amazon has been running Kindle worlds, a program that allows you to write and sell
fan fiction for
licensed worlds, which range from Gossip Girls to Vampire Diaries.
A no derivative works creative commons
license allows everything that an attribution rights creative commons
license allows except that derivative works, like
fan fiction, can't be produced.