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LOTR and Twilight Fan Fiction Archives Bought - For Profit

Jul 01, 2011 13:55

Two fan archives in The Lord of the Rings and Twilight fandoms - LOTRfanfiction.com and The Twilight Archives - have been bought by a web developer named Keith Mander, who plans to develop these archives' features and to generate profit by increasing traffic and adding advertising ( Read more... )

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e_transitions July 1 2011, 18:36:40 UTC

Thanks for the heads up! Boosting the signal to some of the main Twilight LJ groups

ladyelleth July 1 2011, 19:07:37 UTC

Oh, thank you for an excellent summary of the current situation.

The Twilight archive was purchased back in March, while the LotRFF takeover only just became public a few days ago (and triggered something of a mass-exodus of established authors disagreeing with the new policies). It also seems that there actually was no word (at least not where I could see) to the users of TwilightArchives that Mr. Mander seeks to generate revenue from the site, so his reception was ultimately positive. I wrote an email to the archive yesterday alerting them of the fact and requesting more info about plans for the archive, but haven't received a reply yet.

Other than that, would you mind if I included a link to this post in the roundup post I'm working on?

zooey_glass04 July 1 2011, 19:56:58 UTC

Thanks for the extra information! By all means include this link in your roundup post!

Zooey, OTW Communications

francescacoppa July 1 2011, 23:50:48 UTC

Yes, of course!!

dreamflower02 July 1 2011, 20:33:04 UTC

Having seen Mr. Mordor's Mander's blog, I don't for a second believe he wasn't looking for a cash cow.

Would you mind if I cross-posted this at our LOTR GFIC mailing list. We have a number of authors there looking to remove their stories from LOTRFF, and while a lot of them will be putting their gen stories at our Many Paths to Tread archive, some of them will be looking for a good place to put their higher-rated stories.

zooey_glass04 July 1 2011, 20:39:38 UTC

By all means, signal-boost this wherever you'd like! We're always happy for people to spread the word.

Zooey, OTW Communications

esteliel July 1 2011, 20:52:26 UTC

Thank you so much for spreading the word about this, and for summing up what exactly is at risk here.

And a custom importer for efiction-based archives will be wonderful - I've had my stories backed up at the AO3 since it was available, but I know several people in this fandom who were waiting for an easier import function.

francescacoppa July 1 2011, 23:52:16 UTC

I just heard that both importers are complete and ready to go with the next deploy. I think that it will be able to do things like suck down multi-chaptered stories and to preserve info like pairings, tags, etc.

esteliel July 2 2011, 00:43:03 UTC

♥ That almost makes me wish I hadn't yet transferred my 77 chapter epic. *g*