Amazon Publishing is launching Kindle Worlds, a publishing platform that lets authors sell fan fiction based on properties like Gossip Girl. Amazon Publishing retains the rights to the works and will set the prices. So much for those 50 Shades problems.
Today in books and publishing: Simon & Schuster hopes fanfic will bring 50 Shades of profit; Orhan Pamuk recommends Zen for Obama; Google doodles Bram Stoker; Ellen Hopkins has two new books on the way.
When a 1700-year-old document mentioning Jesus' "wife" is unearthed, how do our heathen commenters respond? Not with shock, but with snark.
The union of Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan has brought us many wonderful things ranging from fashion editors waxing about their sartorial choices to the wonky Medicare debate, but this beautiful relationship has also spawned something far weirder: erotic fan fiction.
Today in books and publishing: Susan G. Komen exec to tell her side of the Planned Parenthood story; bookstore imitates Chabon's fiction; Woodward's next book will cover Obama's economic strategy.
The Fifty Shades-ing of publishing continues. What began as Twilight fan fiction is making a lot of people a lot of money — again — as someone who goes by Sylvain Reynard just made a seven-figure deal with Penguin for Gabriel's Inferno.
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