Alchemising Traditional Publishing with Fanfiction

About this episode

The episode discusses the evolving relationship between traditional publishing and fanfiction, including recent trends and legal considerations.

In this episode, Lauren successfully cons Matt into talking about fanfiction again. This time we explore the recent shift in the way traditional publishing approaches fanfiction, and the new trend of openly acquiring popular fanfiction like Manacled and All the Young Dudes. Learn more about the legality of publishing fanfiction, how these practices have changed in the last few years, and what we think this says about the future of the publishing industry. Listen wherever you get y...

People in this episode

Hosts: Matt Briel, Lauren Vassallo

Topics covered

• fanfiction
• traditional publishing
• publishing industry
• legality
• trends

Keywords

• fanfiction
• traditional publishing
• publishing trends
• legality of fanfiction
• publishing industry

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Manacled, All the Young Dudes

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