pull-to-publish
English
Verb
pull-to-publish (third-person singular simple present pulls-to-publish, present participle pulling-to-publish, simple past and past participle pulled-to-publish)
- To withdraw a work of fan fiction from circulation and commercially publish a reworked version of it as original fiction.
- 2014, Joseph Brennan & David Large, "‘Let's Get a Bit of Context’: Fifty Shades and the Phenomenon of ‘Pulling to Publish’ in Twilight Fan Fiction", Media International Australia, Volume 152, Issue 1, August 2014, page 28:
- Such a definition allows us to consider the implications of ‘pulling to publish’ Twilight fanfics.
- 2015, Jessica Seymour, Jenny Roth, & Monica Flegel, "The Lizzie Bennet Diaries: Fan-creator interactions and new online storytelling", Australasian Journal of Popular Culture, Volume 4, Numbers 2-3, June 2015, page 108:
- E. L. James’s 50 Shades of Grey (originally a Twilight fan fiction) has enjoyed tremendous success, inspiring other fan fiction authors to ‘pull to publish’, particularly via new fan-launched digital publishing houses […]
- 2019, R. Lyle Skains, Digital Authorship: Publishing in the Attention Economy, page 68:
- While attention capital drove her success, it was not entirely positive: the fan community perceived James’ “filing off the serial numbers” (deleting identifiable references to its source text) and pulling to publish as a betrayal of the community and an exploitation of community efforts to improve the work through feedback.
- For more examples of usage of this term, see Citations:pull-to-publish.
- 2014, Joseph Brennan & David Large, "‘Let's Get a Bit of Context’: Fifty Shades and the Phenomenon of ‘Pulling to Publish’ in Twilight Fan Fiction", Media International Australia, Volume 152, Issue 1, August 2014, page 28:
Usage notes
This term can be applied to the commercial republication of fan fiction based on source works in the public domain, such as The Cthulhu Mythos, Les Misérables, or Sherlock Holmes. The term file off the serial numbers is exclusively used to describe removing proprietary elements from fan fiction based on copyrighted source works (e.g. changing character and planet names in a Star Wars fanfic).
Hyponyms
- file off the serial numbers