I'll take a look at the Tomie. I can't remember if I've read them before, though I do seem to be aware of them. *g*
Doctrow makes some good points but I think it was his comment about how he'd only ever seen one person selling her fanfic at a con that just didn't seem true to me. Fanfiction STARTED with people selling their stories as Fanzines. Just because they aren't being sold openly doesn't mean they aren't still thriving.
Yeah, that grabbed me too. I was like, uh, zines? Hello? There seems to be a broad fannish consensus *now* that fic should never be for sale, but that hasn't always been the case. I don't think that a fic-for-profit model has ever been widely acceptable (at least afaik).
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Doctrow makes some good points but I think it was his comment about how he'd only ever seen one person selling her fanfic at a con that just didn't seem true to me. Fanfiction STARTED with people selling their stories as Fanzines. Just because they aren't being sold openly doesn't mean they aren't still thriving.
Yeah, that grabbed me too. I was like, uh, zines? Hello? There seems to be a broad fannish consensus *now* that fic should never be for sale, but that hasn't always been the case. I don't think that a fic-for-profit model has ever been widely acceptable (at least afaik).