Yesterday, Amazon announced the launch of Kindle Worlds, a new initiative aimed at letting fan fiction (sometimes falled fanfiction or fanfic) authors profit from some of their writing by making it available for sale in the Kindle store. Recently, Amazon made an announcement that they re going into the business of publishing fanfiction. Please only add the best of the best! As a valued member of the Kindle Worlds licensor community, we wanted to let you know that the Kindle Worlds program is closing. We will be notifying fan authors tomorrow, May 16th. Amazon’s Kindle Worlds is trying to get control of this phenomenon, and milk it for a profit. The notice said Kindle Worlds stories would no longer be available for sale on Amazon by mid-July and that the Kindle Worlds website would close by the end of that August. Thanks to Kindle Worlds, fanfic writers can legally publish. 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It wasn’t until the early 1990s, that fanfic writers from around the world began to find each other online, and congregate and share. Checking in on Kindle Worlds One of Amazon's most innovative programs is Kindle Worlds (at AmazonSmile: support a non-profit of your choice by shopping*) It took the idea of fan fiction (or "fanfic"), and changed it considerably. Kindle Worlds is fanfiction written with the consent of the creators/rights holders, who can set whatever limits they want on how their characters/franchise are used. Fan fiction arises from the people. As of May 17th, Kindle Worlds will no longer be accepting new submissions.Previously published Kindle Worlds stories will no longer be available for sale on Amazon.com on or around July 16th. 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