The Past, Present and Future of Fan Fiction (Infographic)

Posted on 4 June, 2013 by Nate Hoffelder in AAP, Infographic // 5 Comments

The Past, Present and Future of Fan Fiction (Infographic) AAP Infographic Earlier this week Wattpad released a new infographic that looks at the rise of fanfic, and its growing popularity among writers and readers.

The world's largest online writing community has been supporting its members in their efforts to write fanfic for years before Amazon launched Kindle Worlds, and that puts them in a unique position to chart the growing number of stories written by fans. Wattpad reports that they currently have over 4.7 million fanfic titles uploaded to their website set in more universes than you can shake a stick at.

The infographic also confirms my suspicion that one of the earliest examples of fanfic were Sherlock Holmes stories. This iconic character even has his own fan fiction writing groups, the first of which was founded in 1934.

The Past, Present and Future of Fan Fiction (Infographic) AAP Infographic

 

source

About Nate Hoffelder (9923 Articles)
Nate Hoffelder is the founder and editor of The Digital Reader:"I've been into reading ebooks since forever, but I only got my first ereader in July 2007. Everything quickly spiraled out of control from there. Before I started this blog in January 2010 I covered ebooks, ebook readers, and digital publishing for about 2 years as a part of MobileRead Forums. It's a great community, and being a member is a joy. But I thought I could make something out of how I covered the news for MobileRead, so I started this blog."
Contact: WebsiteTwitter

5 Trackbacks & Pingbacks

  1. Stumbling Over Chaos :: In which linkity has no title
  2. The rise of digital fan fiction [infographic]
  3. How Harry Potter Should Have Ended, a harry potter fanfic | FanFiction | The Blog That Made No Sense
  4. Badly Done, Caitlin | Miranda's Island
  5. 9 characters who should have been written out of the story~by Skyerel | The Write Stuff

Leave a comment

Your email address will not be published.


*


Copyright © 2018 The Digital Reader