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Everything I know about marketing I learned from fandom, pt. 1

Posted on April 30, 2011 by
This entry is part 1 of 5 in the series Everything I learned from Fandom

What I really value about fandom, though, is what it has taught me about marketing in the digital era… Continue reading →

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Erotica readers as porn demographic?

Posted on May 9, 2011 by
This entry is part 2 of 5 in the series Everything I learned from Fandom

Women will still talk about how they hate “porn”, and industry watchers will crow in victory at their misguided assumptions based on false data. But fandom ran over those assumptions while no one was looking. Continue reading →

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Fandom is not a master class…and yet…

Posted on June 26, 2011 by
This entry is part 3 of 5 in the series Everything I learned from Fandom

No, the value in writing fanfic for fandom isn’t that it hones writer’s skills to a sharpened blade, but that it actually gets writers to write… Continue reading →

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Everything I know about marketing I learned from fandom, pt. 2

Posted on August 24, 2011 by
This entry is part 4 of 5 in the series Everything I learned from Fandom

Fandom is ginormous, flexible, diverse, and unique, but even so, every fan has a home. Every home is different, but somehow everyone finds their place, somewhere. Continue reading →

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M/M and fandom: the yaoi correlation

Posted on November 20, 2011 by
This entry is part 5 of 5 in the series Everything I learned from Fandom

There might be some real correlations between the popularization of yaoi in Japan during the 80s and the sudden growth of M/M original fiction here in the West currently going on. Continue reading →

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