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Originally Posted by Harper Kingsley
I don't know, it just feels kind of icky to me. I would have been fine with her stripping the fanfic label and changing all details like she did and putting it out as an original story if she hadn't touted it as fanfic first. But it was marketed as "Twilight fanfic" and that really just turns me off right there.
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The 50 Shades approach was to notify the world at large that it was originally fanfic, which caught peoples' outraged attention. A lot of people bought the book because they were mad, which racketed it up the sales ranks and caught the attention of the general public. From there it blew up.
Great marketing plan, sure, but it just seems skeazy to me personally. I mean, there's a lot of AU fanfics that are so awesome they should be their own original fiction. But most fanfic authors have the kind of morality that maintains the "not for profit" label, no matter that there's nothing to trap a story in the original fandom. Instead, the author leaves the story as-is and turns to a different original work.
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All marketing plans are skeazy. This one was based on telling the truth so it makes it less so. I don't see how lying by omission would have made this moral to your eyes.
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Originally Posted by Harper Kingsley
And now that James has gotten away with it, tons of people that never knew about fanfic before are trying their hand at writing it, not for the enjoyment of fandom, but to make a fortune. It's only a matter of time before a legal horror story pops out.
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That would take the "fan" out of "fanfic".