comtessedebussy asked: Hi Neil! You may or may not have heard about the new fan fiction platform that Amazon is launching (Kindle Worlds, I believe it's called). If you've heard of it (there's a post going around tumblr about it), what are your thoughts? I myself don't like the idea of fan fiction becoming monetized in this way, but am I jumping to conclusions?
See the post that I put up on this a couple of days ago, linking to Scalzi’s blog.
Short answer, it makes me uncomfortable. (Having said that, I learned that fanfiction existed when I was about 15 because I read a professionally published collection of the best of Star Trek fanfiction. So I do not have problems with the concept of professionally publishing fan fiction, if the rights holders are comfortable with it. I’m more uncomfortable with Amazon’s role in this.)