A thought on the Kindle Worlds thingy

[huinare]

I just woke up so this may be really poorly articulated, but anyway:

1. I understand the concerns that this flies in the face of fandom culture etc.  I do.
2. I don't feel like fandom overall is threatened by this (this is one case where I'd really hate to have to put my foot in my mouth, of course).  To me it sounds like a new way to get people to write things along the line of, say, Babysitters Club books.  (I don't really know the book series in question admittedly, so I apologize in advance if that analogy is not apt.)

Comments

[huinare.livejournal.com]

Ah okay, I wasn't aware of the vetting process, but that stands to reason. Looks like my analogy is imperfect, but I still don't think this will affect most of fandom too much because most authors/filmmakers would not consent to having things like this done with their work.

The problem for me has never been that Amazon is offering to let people play in existing works. It's that they're taking advantage of people that don't know better.

Well yeah, shifty dealings are never good. I didn't look at the contract myself, but Erulisse seems to agree with you here.

(OMG he's 88? Guess he would be getting on now, wouldn't he? I always picture some gent of about 60, which makes no sense now that I think about it..)

[ladybrooke]

Yeah, I'm not too worried about vast effects on fandom (except for that damn "Fanfic authors are greedy and want money" rumor, that's picking up speed...again.)

I looked at it and wrote about it on dA (I trust the people on my friend's list here to not sign up for shifty deals without looking at terms...I do not trust the general dA public.)

(Yep! 88. And he's got a grandson that is a year or two older than me...I feel like a creep for knowing all this. But Tolkien was born a few years before my oldest great-grandparent, so I suppose it all makes sense....)