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

[msilverstar]

Oy fucking vey, last thing we need is another non-fandom person trying to make money on fic.

[megselv.livejournal.com]

Hah!

So the girl who owned the site says she never wanted to clutter it up with ads.
What a cute reason to end up feeling she simply had to sell it -- to some random guy who's there to earn money on ads on the site.
I wonder how much the idiot paid.

[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