Worlds Kindle, Amazon umbrella for fan fiction - Computer Point

Into The Seattle company opens to the writings freely inspired by the works of others. Through agreements with rights holders, aspiring writers will find in Amazon a publisher willing to let him earn some money from their passion

Rome – It’s called Kindle Worlds and is the new trading platform announced by Amazon Publishing for all writers fans of the genre fan fiction, the revival of narrative stories and characters of the original works of others. A creative technique that would lead to legal battle with the legitimate right holders, now sponsored by the Seattle giant with the ability to monetize their work loosely based .

Studying the giant archives Free Site fanfiction . net, Amazon Publishing has decided to take advantage of the success of its kind to new worlds of literary devices in the Kindle line. With the stipulation of specific licensing agreements – Alloy Entertainment has granted the rights to the fictional universes of Gossip Girl, Pretty Little Liars and Vampire Diaries – Amazon will allow its users to freely dabble with plots, developments narrative and characters.

In looking to expand the catalog of works available – the publishing arm of the retailers Stars and Stripes announced the inclusion of video games, TV shows, movies, and even songs and music albums – Kindle Worlds will provide content creators a royalty rate set at 35 percent for work of at least 10 thousand words . For shorter writings – from 5 thousand to 10 thousand words – authors go on 20 percent of the sale of a single ebook, whose price will be set the same platform.

In essence, this is not the typical mechanisms of self-publishing offered by Kindle Direct Publishing, where the user can upload an electronic book independently and therefore to fix the selling price with fixed royalty to 70 percent . Amazon Publishing will act as a real publisher, splitting the profits with those partners who decide to become part of the Kindle platform Worlds for the release of works protected by copyright. Into Old Mauro