When Fandom Killed Kindle Worlds

Hey Fangirls! In this episode, M and Bea rant, rave, and roar over Amazon's ultimately doomed attempt to monetize fan fiction with its e-shop "Kindle Worlds." Let's just say that they have a lot of opinions and they're going to share them.

fic!Club: "War, Children" by Nonymous

https://archiveofourown.org/works/5373050/chapters/12409394

Rec Corner!

Bea's Rec: "Something Blue" by Lapin

https://archiveofourown.org/works/735920

M's Rec: "Confidence Artists" by Fahye

https://archiveofourown.org/works/2787515

Research

https://www.niemanlab.org/2013/05/amazon-finds-a-way-to-monetize-fan-fiction/

https://dickens.ucsc.edu/resources/faq/by-the-word.html

https://www.victorianweb.org/index.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kindle_Worlds

https://www.dailydot.com/debug/kindle-words-amazon-fanfiction-problems/

https://fanlore.org/wiki/Tie-in

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Music by Gabe Jensen

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