[ SECRET POST #6270 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6270 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Wait, are the ff authors themselves doing this or are other people printing and selling their work?

[(Anonymous)]

Other people. Some are even selling PDFs of stories on etsy (to people who don't know that ao3 exists).

[(Anonymous)]

?! To take someone elses fanfiction and print it out and sell it is just a whole new level of wild.

[(Anonymous)]

One of the weirdest things to come out of this whole printed fic kerfuffle to me (well, this and that whole other situation with the scam fic reading app too) was realizing just how many people don't know about AO3, tbh.

[(Anonymous)]

Man, I find it weird that people would be able to find a random etsy listing for physical fanfic over Ao3. I had to be in a fandom discord for a zine several years back because it wasn't advertised outside of the server, or at least not in a way that was easy to find. While Ao3 is just... there on google if I type on 'X/Y fanfic'.

[(Anonymous)]

If you type "buy Manacled book" in google, you will find a lot more sellers.

But that have been articles about the issue and Etsy have taken down some of the shops who were selling the fic.

You can read about it here: https://www.404media.co/fanfiction-community-roiled-by-etsy-sellers-turning-their-work-into-bound-books/. You just need to register your email to read all the article.

[(Anonymous)]

I looked into this and the only thing I can find is one seller in India with 204 sales. The books are like $150ish (not sure if shipping is included, I didn’t open individual listings because I already messed up my Etsy algorithm enough just opening the shop).
They look terrible though. It will be interesting to see what happens when they’re caught in one of Etsy’s regular HP sweeps. India is on the Etsy ban list but existing shops were allowed to stay open. If they’re caught, they’ll struggle to get around all the clocks to make a new store and even if they do, they’ll still end up getting caught for being in a banned country.

[(Anonymous)]

I saw someone on twitter post some bits of a website selling those bound fics. Not sure which, but the binding did seem very good at first glance and the prices were considerably higher than that (pretty certain I saw something that went up to $700 or something like it, it was nuts).

AYRT

[(Anonymous)]

Oh I should have said I thought the art was ugly, I didn’t mean to imply the actual craftsmanship was poor. It actually looks good and I only noticed one negative review about the construction. The books do look kinda plain compared to the volumes binders make of say Sherlock Holmes or other public domain works. Journals and stuff like that tend to have a different look altogether but the Dramione books I saw on Etsy looked closer to those.