Amazon sets up system to trade on fan fiction

Amazon must review and accept fanfic works for publication, but once it does, profits from the $0.99-$3.99 price range are split three ways: a 35 percent standard cut to the writer and an unspecified split of royalties to the licensor and Amazon itself. Things like slashfic and crossovers are not permitted under Amazon’s guidelines.

I'm going to go ahead and assume slashfic still won't be. 

So if you write something original and sell it with Amazon, you get 70% of the profits. If you write something using someone else's IP and sell it with Amazon, you get 35%. Of course, this opens up a million questions. What is considered fanfic? Is taking one character and using it in your own universe fanfic? What about a reference? What about details? 

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