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telesilla: Meta: Questions about FanLib's FAQ; or Who With the What Now? - n a comment to a previous post of mine, Chris Williams, the co-founder and CEO of FanLib, linked me to FanLib's FAQ and told me to consider the dialog open. Therefore, I have gone through the FAQ question by question and expressed my concerns and asked my -- astolat: An Archive Of One's Own - We need a central archive of our own. -
- stewardess: Fanfiction Writers As FanLib Affiliates
After studying www.FanLib.com for a couple of days, I figured out one of the crucial ways they plan to make money.
They plan to turn fanfiction writers into their affiliates. - inalasahl: Yet Still Day 1506: And you're a gorram fed. - Mostly, because this is not a carefully thought-out sincere commentary on the Fanlib FAQ. -
- sheenaghpugh: Turning it into work - Lately there seem to be a lot of posts on metafandomlike the one from emory_leeabout "making fandom an honest business", and what they all have in common is the notion that making money somehow legitimises the activity. This is starting to bug me slightly -
- antennapedia: Mega-fanfic archive dreams - Scalability is the item on the wishlist that is the hard one. Or rather, the one that requires the brains from whatever poor sap they coax into writing it for them. Those guys need a programmer who doesn't suck in the first moments that the project exists -
- icarusancalion: FanLib Invitation. One of the select few. Like hell. - Well, ain't that fine and dandy. I was "personally selected" because of my great writing. Why did that sound like a credit card offer? -
- rahirah: The writing, she is the bitch - I was reminded again today of one of the ways writing is like sex: either you're doing it mainly to get yourself off, or you're doing mainly to get someone else off. Most of us do it for both those reasons, of course, but usually one or the other has an e -
- fabu: A tiny rantlet about composition - Why do so many writers, and particularly writing teachers (or people who write about writing) fetishize longhand composition? -
- stewardess: FanLib: Are You There Yet? - There is a new website called FanLib.com. It was funded by venture capital and has a board of directors, all of whom are rich bigwigs in the entertainment industry. -
- stewardess: A Brief FAQ on [not for] FanLib - Some folks have just discovered the FanLib debacle, and many have the same questions. I will answer them briefly. -
- cofax7: link, and extended commentary on Fanlib (again) - You the fanfic writer are no better off if you post a story to Fanlib, and I submit you may be worse off. -
- morgandawn: Copyright: Marketing Fan Fiction - Because the site has both (a) visibility and (b) is venture capital funded with a board of directors - it crosses the line from 'hobbyists" to 'corporations.' -