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[rez_lo]

Edit and update: Uh, I'm a little confused, here, but this page on Diane Duane's Young Wizards site makes it seem as though she's working with FanLib?

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I haven't seen much discussion around the fact that Hilary Rosen of the RIAA is the head of FanLib's test-case site for The L Word. I've posted about that on my LJ.

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[stewardess]

Thank you for doing this. It looks like you found everything remotely resembling a news article.

The Forbes article, though, is just the FanLib press release, verbatim it looks like.

The BusinessWeek article is interesting, because it's about the my2centences gigs that FanLib did in the past, extremely specific contests built around a promotion. It has nothing to do with what FanLib the web site is about today.

It seems there are no real news articles about FanLib's current venture anywhere, only a couple of mentions by bloggers and columnists, or straight-up rehashings of their press release.

I signed up for google news notification on anythiing concerning fanlib, and I've received nothing. I'm kind of boggled.

[rez_lo]

There actually were more but they were pretty much verbatim reprints of the FL release. There were a large number of notices in the digital-publishing newsletters and also some in the VC-watchers newsletters. Nobody's doing any actual reporting

[msilverstar]

The thing about Hilary Rosen is really weird! Bad sign tho.

[rez_lo]

Yeah. Not a coincidence, either, I'm thinking. She's working a strategy with the entertainment biggies, like always. She's bad news.

[why_lorinda]

Regarding Scott Westerfeld-he's a YA author, writes fantasy-sci-fi stuff. And his books are always featured at Barnes and Noble. He's actually quite good at what he does (I read his books, and they're excellent YA), but he didn't seem to quite know what he was talking about, in my opinion. If they're really 'passionate fans' then they're probably already on fanfic.net, or LJ, or something of the like. But his idea of 'passionate' is probably not most serious fanfic writers idea

[rez_lo]

Thank you! I just paged through his blog and there's not a single mention, afaics, of FanLib, so maybe his publicist got him the quote. The reporter would've had to get some opinion from a copyright holder, and authors are easier to talk to than publishers, prolly. *g*

I loved his FAQ, where he talks about writing more YA than adult because it gets him more feedback fan mail. His stuff sounds great and I've added him to my WL, so double thanks. There can never be enough good YA!

[wakuchan]

About that Diane Duane page, I believe that contest is pretty old, at least predating March (you'll notice it redirects to the FanLib frontpage now, not the Wizards on Call contest) I thought I saw somewhere else that FanLib existed earlier as some kind of communal writing forum?

[rez_lo]

Ah, thank you! I'm curious about how the relationship came about, I'll admit. I know of Duane and I believe she has a Livejournal but I don't move in that circle of fen or writers.

[unovis]

A post on Lord of the Rings Fanfiction archive mentions recruiting for fanlib.com by a fellow site member.

[rez_lo]

Thank you for the link. It's certainly clear that whatever their experience of fandom has been in the past, the FanLib people are absolutely clueless about etiquette within these communities. Good lord.