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Originally Posted by John F
Amazon sold something they weren't supposed to, just like 1984. Almost the exact same thing.
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Actually John, it is Amazon selecting several of their author and negotiating with them to open their developed "worlds" to other authors to allow them to write stories, novellas etc in those worlds.
While the term "fan fiction" has been thrown around and the desire of people to read these stories put down to "but it's just fan fiction", it should be noted that the authors writing these contributions to the "worlds" are professional authors.
It would be like calling Jody Lynn Nye (an author with 185 works listed on goodreads) a "fan fiction" writer because she accepts invitations to write in Mercedies Lackey's Elemental "world" anthologies.
Because these contributions to the worlds are part of Amazon's new(ish) Kindle Worlds with restrictions to JUST the USA it has become somewhat of a pet peeve of mine that Amazon has decided to have additions to the worlds of these authors not be available to any of the fans of the authors/worlds/original series if they do not live in the US. I feel strongly that it is sending a message to me (as a reader from Canada instead of the US) not to follow the authors who are participating in Kindle Worlds.
Why should I purchase any more books by the authors who are involved in Kindle Worlds? Even if "new release a" in "series a" by an author who works within a Kindle Worlds(KW) contract is one which is not under the KW restrictions, who is to say that "series a" will not appeal to Amazon as a new KW and become unavailable to me?
Geo restrictions in the Kindle Worlds case is purely something Amazon has come up with for some reason thinking it a good marketing plan. I know it has made me feel unimportant as a customer and as a fan of the authors who are involved in KW works.