On Wed, 30 Dec 1998, Jessica Samolson wrote:

Mixx will be putting out Sailor Moon Novels starting in April, and 
rumours are flying as to who the writers are.

Was anyone here approached, and if so, where can I find your stories.

If this is true, it's utter disaster for those Sailor Moon fanfic writers
out there. 

One of the large reasons that fanfic can be freely circulated is that we
don't take money from the corporations - we actually serve as free
advertising. Sueing our usually poor accounts would be counterproductive,
and damages would be difficult to prove.

Official novels, however, change the equasion.

Mixx can argue - and quite convincingly - "Look, we're losing money
because of these clowns. Why should Joe Otaku shell out fifteen bucks for
one of our novels when he can get the same kind of thing on the net for
free?"

The result? Mixx would be well within its rights and interests to wipe SM
fiction from the net. I believe Paramount adopted a similar strategy when
the rise of Trek netfiction threatened its novel line.

While I'm not a Sailor Moon author... hell, I'm not even a reader; I
detest the series... this is a very worrisome development for anime
fanfiction in general. Verification of this information is in order, as is
a determination of the exact _type_ of novel - Robotech and Gundam
novelizations, that is, treatments of the anime into book form, have
existed for decades, and are not nearly the threat that actual original
novels would be.

-ML 
 

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