P2P: What It Is, and How It Damages Both Authors & Readers
Great post on P2P.
Originally posted on Tez Says:
NOTE: In this article, “monetised fan fiction” does NOT refer to OFFICIALLY-LICENSED fan works. (eg. Star Trek has a spread of officially-licensed stories, as do Kindle Worlds – these are all fine.) In this article, “monetised fan fiction” refers to UNOFFICIAL monetised fan works.
(Meme from my Pinterest.)
I’m quite simple with my reading tastes: I just want to read original fiction that wasn’t fan fiction in a previous incarnation. If something used to be fan fiction – however heavily revised, expanded, and changed since then – it should be clearly labelled as such, so consumers aren’t led astray.
But it’s not just the reading public being cheated: Authors of the fiction that inspired the fan fiction are being robbed of a cut of the profits that should rightfully be theirs.
Welcome to the world of “pulled-to-publish” (P2P) fiction.
Fanlore.org says, “Filing off the serial numbers refers to…
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