“Serious content restrictions” at Amazon’s fan fiction platform Kindle Worlds... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-08-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
Seven new rights holders have signed agreements for Kindle Worlds, Amazon's model that allows writers to publish and sell authorized stories inspired by popular worlds. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-02-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Come on now, why are you wasting your time here, when you could be reading some Gossip Girl fan fic? Roughly a month after announcing its licensed character publishing platform, Amazon has taken the wraps off of Kindle Worlds. The site currently offers up 50-plus commissioned stories based on... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2013-06-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
Limiting Kindle Worlds to the ebook form may cater the needs of licensors, but it is counter to the ethos, habits and desires of fanfiction writers and readers. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-06-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
The digital publishing platform will let fans write, publish, and sell the stories they've written based on popular books, TV shows, and more. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2013-05-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Amazon's taken a number of steps to bring different types of content to the Kindle Store, and it's now venturing into an area that has a long history with the internet: fan fiction. The company's today announced Kindle Worlds, a new publishing platform that promises to pay writers royalties for... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2013-05-22 00:00:00 UTC ]