FanLib is not a fanfiction archive? Huh?
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| Title: | FanLib is not a fanfiction archive? Huh? |
| Creator: | stewardess |
| Date(s): | April 10, 2008 |
| Medium: | online |
| Fandom: | |
| Topic: | FanLib, OTW |
| External Links: | here, Archived version |
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FanLib is not a fanfiction archive? Huh? is a post by stewardess at the livejournal community life_wo_fanlib. It comments on FanLib: One Year Later, posted by Laura Hale to Fanthropology a few weeks earlier.
Some topics discussed: FanLib, Fandom and Profit, OTW, Laura Hale, and Fan History Wiki.
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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.
FanLib is being ignored because it bombed as a fanfiction archive. Its investors may be pleased with it as a mechanism for direct mail marketing, but to fandom as a whole FanLib was a tiny blip that quickly faded. We will never know if the fanfiction archive was shuffled under the marketing campaign umbrella because that was FanLib's plan from the get-go, or because of its dismal growth. We do know the intellectual property holders who fund the FanLib "contests" are funding the fanfiction archive, too. No one is surprised. Or even excited.