Date: Wed, 22 May 2013 19:58:05 -0400
From: mark <whitroth at 5-cent.us>
To: WSFA Official List <wsfa-forum at yahoogroups.com>,
 WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>,
 bsfsgeneral <bsfsgeneral at bsfs.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Amazon "Kindle Worlds"
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

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Essentially, this means that all the work in the Kindle Worlds arena is a=

work for hire that Alloy (and whomever else signs on) can mine with
impunity. This is a very good deal for Alloy, et al - they're getting
story ideas! Free! =C3=A2=C2=80=C2=94 and less of a good deal for the act=
ual writers
themselves. I mean, the official media tie-in writers and script writers
are doing work for hire, too, but they get advances and\or at least WGA
minimum scale for their work.

Another red flag:

"Amazon Publishing will acquire all rights to your new stories, including=

global publication rights, for the term of copyright."

Which is to say, once Amazon has it, they have the right to do anything
they want with it, including possibly using it in anthologies or selling
it other languages, etc, without paying the author anything else for it,
ever. Again, an excellent deal for Amazon; a less than excellent deal for=

the actual writer.
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