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Kindle Worlds is expanding: 22 Fan-fiction worlds open for Kindle authors - lesen.net

02/06/2014 – by John Main – eBook News

screenshot 2014-02-06 at 12:17:41 The Fan Fiction Department Kindle Worlds grows. Thanks licensing agreement with Hasbro and Warner, among other authors can submit fan-fiction texts to seven other worlds now, with features especially in the U.S. extremely successful franchise GI Joe. The range within the now 22 Fan Fiction departments is remarkable, the demand but still quite manageable.


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the high acclaim Kindle Worlds opened its doors in June of last year. To start, Amazon had were licenses for seven franchises within which authors locate their stories. Fan fiction is very popular – not least of 50 Shades of Grey was initially an infra in the Twilight universe history – was in the past due to the rights issue but hardly monetised

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In recent months the number of fan-fiction texts and the available franchises grew continuously. This Tuesday, Amazon has announced the signing of seven other worlds highlight is GI Joe. The militaristic action figure was already in the 60s as’ Barbie for boys “in the U.S. trade and is one of the most successful toy franchises ever. In this country moved G.I. Joe in recent years by two’ll see movies the attention of a wider public.

Thus the number of Kindle Worlds rises to 22 Currently about 380 Fan fiction texts in the U.S. Kindle to have store them play alone 113 in the Vampire diaris world and another 70 in the Wool / silo universe of Hugh Howey, for its part, even a Kindle self-publishers (in this country at Piper).

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“next 50 Shades of Grey” but was probably not yet published in the Kindle Worlds, at least the sales figures of fan-fiction texts have so far both in width and in the tip. For the current number 1 in the Kindle Worlds charts it is, at present only about 3,683 of the total rank Kindle Store charts, been the runner-up is no longer even in the top 10,000 of the overall rankings. Sales success certainly see different.

The acquisition of other successful franchises is definitely the right way for Amazon to acquire new authors and stories. Furthermore, Amazon will certainly also seek an expansion to other Märke in 2014, as previously happened with Kindle Singles.


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