![]() ![]() At the most, it’s truthful advertising.” She’ll be running a series of posts on fan fiction and copyright, and I’m looking forward to reading them. She says it’s important to state a book’s provenance: “It’s an indicator to readers that they may have encountered this before and it gives the fandom that propelled the author to success a nod. “With the success of Alternate Universe fan fiction and the successful leveraging of that fandom into seven-figure economic rewards, the influx of fan fiction into professional publishing is likely to begin at greater levels than previous,” Litte writes. Today Jane Litte, who runs the popular romance blog “Dear Author,” compares 50 Shades of Grey to Master of the Universe using a variety of Internet tools, and finds that the works are quite similar - 89 percent the same, according to plagiarism-detection tool TurnItIn. Sarah Weinman at Publishers Marketplace reported yesterday (subscription required) that Vintage publisher Anne Messitte called 50 Shades of Grey and Master of the Universe “two distinctly separate pieces of work.” Before that, the trilogy appeared in a slightly different form, under the title Master of the Universe, on fan fiction site FF.net. James’ 50 Shades of Grey trilogy, which was first published in book form last year by a small Australian publisher. Vintage paid seven figures to republish E.L. ![]() ![]() The big question now is though who will actually play Ana and Christian in the movie? Ian Somerholder of The Vampire Diaries (above) is a hot contender -and his eyes are GREY.Fifty Shades of Grey, the erotic novel that started out as Twilight fan fiction and that will now be re-published by Random House’s Vintage, raises interesting questions about crowdsourcing and copyright. James bases the two main characters on them - read more about how the books came into being here. So just mentally cast Robert Patterson and Kristen Stewart as the two protagonists and bobs your uncle. The author started writing Twilight fan fiction online and Fifty Shades of Grey just. The books are topping the best seller lists. Time Magazine have recently named James one of the 100 most influential people in the world. "We can't understand why it's so popular" say the publishers of these works of erotic literature. ![]() It sums it all up in a few paragraphs and means you probably won't have to bother. If you haven't read the book - read this hilarious synopsis instead. Sipping delicious glasses of white wine (type varies according to Christian's eclectic but excellent tastes)
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