Kindle Worlds = FanLib?

[stewardess]

Amazon announces a new program called Kindle Worlds, in which fanfic authors are invited to color within the lines to color within the lines in a tiny number of fandoms and supposedly earn royalties on straight-to-Kindle fanfiction.

See John Scalzi's take on it.I commented at his blog; my hunch is that Amazon will charge authors a fee for every

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[joiedumonde]

I admit I almost threw my phone across the room when I read about this on my BBC News app the other day. Such awful flashbacks! I've read some of the comments on John's blog, and I tend to agree that this is more along the lines of marketing something as fanfic, rather than actually marketing real fanfic.

[ingriam]

That wouldn't surprise me.