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Old 03-11-2012, 02:14 PM   #1
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Fifty Shades of Grey tops NYT Bestsellers - mainly from ebook sales
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-17332129

Erotic fiction really is hot, so to speak.

If you're a mid-list writer of genre fiction it must make you wonder whether the scene with the scientists and the DNA analysis could be spiced up a little.
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Old 03-11-2012, 03:12 PM   #2
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About a rich male tycoon having a BDSM relationship with a young woman, he being the dominant one.

It's what twilight wants to be when it grows up!

They say romance is porn for women. As I tell women, you don't want to look at porn because you don't want to know what men fantasize about. Similarly for men, you don't want to read romance because you don't want to know what women fantasize about. It's best to don't ask, don't tell.
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Old 03-11-2012, 06:19 PM   #3
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It's what twilight wants to be when it grows up!
Considering it was originally a Twilight fanfic with the ridiculous title "Master of the Universe," you're not too far off.
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Old 03-11-2012, 07:08 PM   #4
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and it's vastly over-priced: $30 for each book in the trilogy, and $10 in eformat.
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Old 03-13-2012, 07:49 AM   #5
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So I guess this means a year from now the publishers will be flooding the market with BDSM erotica titles!

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Old 03-13-2012, 09:35 AM   #6
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eeech! Terrible book but her fan base is the worst, much worse than anything the Twighlighters ever did. The "dominate" (notice my clever play on words there?) message boards left and right and pretty much spam for the author incessantly.
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Old 03-13-2012, 11:41 AM   #7
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more triteness that'll take the world by storm. if you want smut, buy smut, don't disguise it by reading 'literature'. get a copy of penthouse variations and go to town.

sorry but hack names like anastasia steele and christian grey don't set my pulse racing, they make me groan at their sheer cheesiness. ted longdong and foxy le'mew are good names for erotica characters, not anastasia.
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Twilight porn is in the best seller list. Are women that desperate?
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Old 03-13-2012, 11:55 AM   #9
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So I guess this means a year from now the publishers will be flooding the market with BDSM erotica titles!
You mean it's not yet flooded with those?
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So I guess this means a year from now the publishers will be flooding the market with BDSM erotica titles!

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And all the major Pubs establish new departments to scour FanFiction.net for the next big thing.

Truthfully this makes me a little uncomfortable as a reader of Fan Fiction. There has always been an agreement, tacit or explicit, that the "characters are borrowed for non-commercial purposes." Because of that, copyright holders largely turn a blind eye toward protesting the Fan Fiction community utilizing their product. Too much of this and I think authors and Publishers will become much less understanding about Fan Fiction authors taking existing characters and worlds for unauthorized use.
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Dear Author just posted a statement from Vintage (Random House) that says 50 Shades is wholly original from of Master of the Universe, and right below it, a Turnitin comparison that scored them as being 89% the same work.
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Old 03-13-2012, 03:48 PM   #12
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You mean it's not yet flooded with those?
Yes it already is. But perhaps not mainstream publications.

Speaking of names, there are "erotica authors" with these pen names--Stormy Glenn, Rayne Forrest. I am not making that up. Brilliant and clever, aren't they?
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Too much of this and I think authors and Publishers will become much less understanding about Fan Fiction authors taking existing characters and worlds for unauthorized use.
I wouldn't worry too much. Filing off the serial numbers has been going on for quite a while now.
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I agree with the thought (thanks for the link Vulcan Girl) that the series should list its provenance. This particular example is skating on the edge of absurd, to call it wholly original.
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