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Amazon Kindle to pay for Fanfiction?
May 22, 2013-Today, Amazon Publishing announces Kindle Worlds, the first commercial publishing platform that will enable any writer to create fan fiction based on a range of original stories and characters and earn royalties for doing so. Amazon Publishing has secured licenses from Warner Bros. Television Group's Alloy Entertainment division for its New York Times best-selling book series Gossip Girl, by Cecily von Ziegesar; Pretty Little Liars, by Sara Shepard; and Vampire Diaries, by L.J. Smith; and plans to announce more licenses soon. Through these licenses, Kindle Worlds will allow any writer to publish authorized stories inspired by these popular Worlds and make them available for readers to purchase in the Kindle Store.Amazon Publishing will pay royalties to both the rights holders of the Worlds and the author. The standard author's royalty rate (for works of at least 10,000 words) will be 35% of net revenue. As with all titles from Amazon Publishing, Kindle Worlds will base net revenue off of sales price-rather than the lower, industry standard of wholesale price-and royalties will be paid monthly.
In addition, with the launch of Kindle Worlds, Amazon Publishing will pilot an experimental new program for particularly short works-between 5,000 and 10,000 words. For these short stories-typically priced under one dollar-Amazon will pay the royalties for the World's rights holder and pay authors a digital royalty of 20%.
...how are we suppose to feel about this?
Because I'm conflicted.
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Should be up sometime soon, tell me what you think about it. (I feel fine if it sucks cause I had no editors.)
Hey, ya know what the best part writing Children of a Lesser Dragon God Boy Whelp Thingy Guy is? Getting to come and thank all the great folks like you who Faved it!
I'd like to thank you for your fave on As Long As You're Living! It means a lot to me that you enjoyed it.
CHAPTER UPDATE!!!
YEAH!
Happy birthday, Dawnscroll!
Look, i would like to say just one thing: Please, just once, give Hoplite the upper at something, just... Just one time, I mean for the love of Christ the poor bastard never seems to get anything right, and now that he has popped up in another story I'm following (enter nurse Luna), I was reminded of how much it irked and frustrated me the fact that he always was pretty much the butt of every joke, the Charlie Brown of the pony world, no, hell tue Meg Griffin!
Please Dawnscroll, just think about it Ok? Is just tha... I have my personal demons as well, and I would like to see something that gots me "fixed", If you must, even if at the end of the day it only creates an ilusion of getting something done...
I would just like to say that I really enjoy your story. I hope whatever troubles you are having get better. No need to rush on the new chapter. You are more important than a story.
>>420761withour meaning to sound like an asshole, but you are the third author that has given me this answer regarding his personal life...
Well, hope that whatever is going south in your life finds its right way once again.
>>420511 *twitches and tries to sip his tea with shaky hands*
In life? Eh, Ive been better. Expect the next chapter very soon... just... my life has been a little ridiculous these past few weeks.
So, how are you doing? And how is that last chapter going?