It would be great to have an initiative that's based on dialogue between all parties. There has to be more understanding of why everyone is in the game, what they would consider value, what their motivations are.
A system that disrespects any party's motivations has no chance of getting off the ground. Companies in a market economy are mostly motivated by the desire/need to make money, and fans can/should respect that. Fans (English-speaking media fandom fans at the very least) in a gift economy are motivated mostly by the desire to share their stuff within the communities they like. Kindle Worlds gets several things wrong, but it really makes a fundamental error simply by forbidding fans who submit their stories to it to still share them for free elsewhere. If you sell your story on Kindle Worlds, you're not allowed to hand it out for free anymore to those who can't or don't want to pay for fic.
Sharing is a core fannish motivation in very many fan communities. If you forbid fans to share their stories as a condition for participating in a market economy, you're not building a bridge between your market economy and fans' gift economy; you're trying to co-opt that gift economy. If you ignore the basic motivations of people in gift economies, those people won't want to work with you. Generic you, not you you ;)
Oh god I need to get back to work. What I mean is, I look forward to the new and more sensible initiative! When can we expect more info?
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Date: 2013-05-23 03:10 pm (UTC)A system that disrespects any party's motivations has no chance of getting off the ground. Companies in a market economy are mostly motivated by the desire/need to make money, and fans can/should respect that. Fans (English-speaking media fandom fans at the very least) in a gift economy are motivated mostly by the desire to share their stuff within the communities they like. Kindle Worlds gets several things wrong, but it really makes a fundamental error simply by forbidding fans who submit their stories to it to still share them for free elsewhere. If you sell your story on Kindle Worlds, you're not allowed to hand it out for free anymore to those who can't or don't want to pay for fic.
Sharing is a core fannish motivation in very many fan communities. If you forbid fans to share their stories as a condition for participating in a market economy, you're not building a bridge between your market economy and fans' gift economy; you're trying to co-opt that gift economy. If you ignore the basic motivations of people in gift economies, those people won't want to work with you. Generic you, not you you ;)
Oh god I need to get back to work. What I mean is, I look forward to the new and more sensible initiative! When can we expect more info?