Last week, Amazon announced Kindle Worlds, a new imprint and store allowing anyone to publish fan fiction, and earn money from it. The Amazon royalty rate of 35% of the sale price will be used and writers paid monthly. A proportion of proceeds will also be paid to the original licence holder.
Amazon has been able to do this through an agreement with Warner Bros, licensing Gossip Girl, Pretty Little Liars, and The Vampire Diaries as three different ‘Worlds’. Writers can pick a world, then write fan fiction using the characters and settings as per the original text.
But what is Kindle Worlds doing to the world of fan fiction?
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