Once upon a time--back in the mid 90s--John Ordover, the then Star Trek editor of Pocket Books, posted on alt.startrek.creative advertising a contest for fan writers. If you wrote a fic that fit into their guidelines--which were the same stringent ones tie-in writers had to follow--you could win a cash prize and be published in an anthology. If I
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I know there's always going to be someone trying to make a buck - and lemme say seeing names like HarperCollins and Simon&Schuster do not fill me with any kind of relief or trust - on any kind of market, but... so many people!
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/bitchy
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They're gonna get suckered. Hard. And that - I hate when that happens. I know Barnum said it, but I don't have to like it :(
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There are ads now. All of the main pages have ads for TV shows and movies.
It looks like FanLib's plan is to suck money out of fans. Fanfiction writers and readers are the ideal audience to sell the Extra-extra-special edition to, movie tickets, T-shirts, tie-in books, tie-in comics, the DVD boxed sets, the action figures, etc.
Really disgusting: they already sold a bogus eight-week "learn to be a writer" course. God I hate those things. They prey on the weak. I can't find a link to it, unfortunately.
You did notice Star Trek is one of FanLib's sponsors, right? :D
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Dude, seriously? Do you have a link to it?
You did notice Star Trek is one of FanLib's sponsors, right? :D
Wow, imagine my surprise. If ever there was a franchise that lived to make money off its fans....
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*does whois lookup*
Yep, the site name was registered in 2003. Not sure when the web site launched.
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"Driven by a revolutionary patent pending technology two-years in development, FANLIB lets a mass audience collectively and democratically create original scripts one scene at a time."
Then they started excluding spiders via the robot.txt file, so I can't see when it changed to focus on fanfic.
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This is an interesting development... thanks for pointing it out, can't wait to see what kind of mess it turns into.
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