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stewardess.livejournal.com2008-04-10 12:29 pm
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FanLib is not a fanfiction archive? Huh?
FanLib does not think of itself as a fanfiction archive.
Then what is FanLib? A naked advertising agency wearing a fanfiction archive suit? Yes.
According to partly_bouncy's recent summary of FanLib at fanthropology, the two branches of FanLib -- the fanfiction archive and the writing contest marketing campaigns -- are one big amorphous blob.
If true, this is an about-face since the spring of 2007, when the Williams Brothers frantically distanced the new fanfiction archive venture from the my2centences marketing materials dug up by Mary McNamara and others.
( Remember the coloring book comparison, where FanLib assured the intellectual property holders that writing contest participants would stay within the lines? )
Then what is FanLib? A naked advertising agency wearing a fanfiction archive suit? Yes.
According to partly_bouncy's recent summary of FanLib at fanthropology, the two branches of FanLib -- the fanfiction archive and the writing contest marketing campaigns -- are one big amorphous blob.
If true, this is an about-face since the spring of 2007, when the Williams Brothers frantically distanced the new fanfiction archive venture from the my2centences marketing materials dug up by Mary McNamara and others.
( Remember the coloring book comparison, where FanLib assured the intellectual property holders that writing contest participants would stay within the lines? )