When a fan goes into a bookstore, they can point at many books where even just by looking at the cover, they can tell that the author or the work in particular came from fandom. It might be that while
As demonstrated above, the norms of print publishing above all else value public access: public publishing, public circulation, public market through public buying and public selling, public reading, public engagement. The average fan text flouts these norms, whether because print
[QUOTE] From Anna von Veh, What Can Trade Publishers Learn from Fanfiction?
Yes, much of fanfiction revolves around romance and ‘M-rated’ stories (and there’s a whole book to be written about that). However, focusing only on the subject matter and traditional boundary issues obscures what fanfiction has to offer us as publishers:
[QUOTE] From Anna von Veh, What Can Trade Publishers Learn from Fanfiction?
Fanfiction sits at the margins of mainstream creative endeavour, and interrogates established views of what it means to be a writer; the meaning of intellectual property, creativity, originality, ‘ownership;’ and traditional boundaries surrounding these concepts, as well as the whole
[QUOTE] From Anna von Veh, What Can Trade Publishers Learn from Fanfiction?
Fanfiction as digital Text also embodies a paradox: it harks back to the days of Dickens in the way it is written and ‘published,’ and it shows a potential path for mainstream trade digital publishing. (…) Fanfiction shows that the