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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
Kindle Worlds may stick to tv shows and movies, where the copyright owner is the company, not any author who's been involved in creating content for them. There's some sense to that--it's easier to market books related to something with an audience measured in millions than one measured in thousands.
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The Digital Reader blogger agrees with you:
http://www.the-digital-reader.com/20...e-in-industry/
It may very well be that the primary target is tie-ins.
That alone would be a pretty good market and revenue stream.
I tend to think (WRPG) game developers should be all over this: their audiences run in the millions, not tens of millions like TV shows, so the economics of trad-pub'ed tie-ins only work for the highest profile Universes (like Halo). Take out the traditional publishers and go, as you said, crowd-sourced (with minimal up-front investment) and there might be profits for all involved at much lower volumes.
I do think there may be room for some single-author IPs in Kindle Worlds, (even self-pub IPs) precisely because of the low volumes. For example, there is the TRUE BLOOD universe. The author is "ending" the series because she's apparently said all she had to say with those characters; fans are ever hungry for more content so rather than ghost any further books she could theoretically just open the milleau and let the fans take over.
I can also see some estates of popular IP authors opening up those universes. The E.E. Smith family, for example, might open up the SKYLARK Universe or the Lensmen world. It would be a lot simpler than trying to ovversee official sequels, prequels, or "illuminations".