I'm currently reading the 2002 hugo winner for literature. While it's new (the book) comparative to fandom/fanfic, I'm not really sure that makes a difference.
I think one of the big things that seems to throw people is that fanfiction doesn't need someone to approve of it before it can get published. Doesn't need anyone to say "this is worth reading" whatever that means to that person and thus publishable and thus there's this weird "well no one is doing it for you, and thus you must do it for yourself" which totally misses the point of most of what publishers do.
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Date: 2007-06-08 01:08 am (UTC)I'm currently reading the 2002 hugo winner for literature. While it's new (the book) comparative to fandom/fanfic, I'm not really sure that makes a difference.
I think one of the big things that seems to throw people is that fanfiction doesn't need someone to approve of it before it can get published. Doesn't need anyone to say "this is worth reading" whatever that means to that person and thus publishable and thus there's this weird "well no one is doing it for you, and thus you must do it for yourself" which totally misses the point of most of what publishers do.