New owner of LOTRFanFiction.com is "super excited."

[stewardess.livejournal.com]

esteliel sent me a message about LOTRFanFiction.com being sold. Read about it at her journal:

http://esteliel.livejournal.com/428988.html?format=light

Also well worth reading: a comment by Adora, who sold the web site.

http://esteliel.livejournal.com/428988.html?thread=3322556&format=light#t3322556

The new owner, Keith Mander, has purchased other fan sites, such as TwilightArchives.com. He writes in his blog:

Deja vu? LOTRFanFiction.com is a fan fiction archive, just like TwilightArchives.com (another site I snapped up a couple of months ago).

The thinking is that I can leverage the technology behind the Twilight site's redesign to quickly rejuvenate the LOTR site. Plus, plenty of opportunities for cross promotion and integration (SSO, for example). The longer term thought is that with the combined user base, I'll be able to quickly enter and dominate new fandoms, hopefully creating some returns.

Yep, it's deja vu all over again.

Comments

[shalom]

He keeps saying all the questions being fired at him will be answered in FAQs. There is no way he's going to be able to keep up with the volume of messages and questions that are going to pile up for him. (Great, mature, trusting av picture he uses on his blog too. LOL)

You'd think a new business owner dependent upon the submissions of others would AT LEAST have gone to the largest contributors and developed a relationship with them. He's screwed.

In other things, his resume (http://www.keithmander.com/assets/KeithManderCV.pdf) has a section for "Passions". hee

[stewardess.livejournal.com]

You may recall fanlib attempted to butter people up in advance, and failed spectacularly (http://miera-c.livejournal.com/280712.html?format=light). My favorite quote will always be: "I'm puzzled as to why
exactly you think this will make money."

Though I'm also fond of: "Every so often, as if acting out some formulaic movie plot, a bunch of big-city suits get lost in the wilderness of the Internet, and bad things happen."

[shalom]

"I'm puzzled as to why exactly
you think this will make money."

We really need to print that on t-shirts and make us some money.

Also, his quote about dominating fandoms is priceless.

[miera-c.livejournal.com]

I'm willing to yield any rights to the quote for such a purpose. ;)

[shalom]

Of course, all profits will go to you, to help fight fandom domination. :)

[shalom]

"Every so often, as if acting out some formulaic movie plot, a bunch of big-city suits get lost in the wilderness of the Internet, and bad things happen."

It's like Deliverance on the Internet instead of the Cahulawassee River.