Well now that Kindle Worlds exists fanfiction is more accessible than ever. I wish they had a nonprofit option there though - I feel more companies would jump on that bandwagon to license their characters out and then it could be a legit competitor to ff.net and ao3.
You can also put fanfics in general on your kindle if you're willing to fiddle around a bit to convert them to mobi format.
There are sites like this one
to do the actual conversion once you've got them in something as simple as a .doc document.
You can also simple change them into txt. It's not flashy, but works just fine and you don't have to fiddle with any programs, the word program can do that for you.
The Mod with the Migraine
Did newer kindles stop reading standard pdf files? Because my old Sony reader, I used to read quite a bit on there that I'd copy/paste into Word note and convert to pdf for reading. Worked especially well if I adjusted the mage size.
That’s the epitome of privilege right there, not considering armed nazis a threat to your life. - Silasw
pdf works too...I just prefer txt, because the size adjustments work better.
So, I gained a Kindle this Christmas and decided to play around with it and then I typed "fanfiction" and waited for the results.
It actually returned 63 results. Let me share a few that I found amusing (I mean, judging by descriptions):
- On the Trail of Snowden. Snowden fan fiction in which a spy searchs for Edward Snowden in Moscow's airport. 14 pages and it costs R$ 2.26, or more or less one dollar.
- The Legend of Zelda: Forgotten Goddess. Obvious fanfic, it costs R$400 (or 176 dollars) but we have a discount of 100%, 324 pages.
- iCarly & Co.. Contains curtain fics and costs more or less 2.50 dollars. It has "invented other episodes" and drabbles for other series and an original story.
There are also false positives, a good number of German fanfics, rule 34 of Pride And Prejudice, manuals on how to write fanfic and actually serious studies on fanfic. What do you think of that? I mean, are these allowed? Or will they start a new trend?
edited 22nd Dec '13 6:49:09 PM by RN452
My work is here. Current main fic: Tengen Toppa Gurren Solvernia