I keep forgetting to put at the top of these posts that they're part of a series. I'll try to be better about that.
One of the panelists asked how reading fan fiction has changed your approach to other reading. WisCon is a book con, not a media con, so this didn't go in the usual looking for subtext in everything direction (or if it did, I don't remember that part of it).
One woman said, with apologies to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ceciliatan, who was on the panel, that she's less likely to buy professionally published erotica now. I'm with her. I have two reasons, but I think she only gave one of those two. My reasons:
One of the panelists asked how reading fan fiction has changed your approach to other reading. WisCon is a book con, not a media con, so this didn't go in the usual looking for subtext in everything direction (or if it did, I don't remember that part of it).
One woman said, with apologies to
ceciliatan, who was on the panel, that she's less likely to buy professionally published erotica now. I'm with her. I have two reasons, but I think she only gave one of those two. My reasons:- Books are expensive; fan fic is cheap. Even ebooks are expensive. ($6 for a novel that they don't even have to print? Craziness. I'd buy a hell of a lot more ebooks if they were $2.99 or $3.99.)
- Fan fic is lower risk when it comes to quality. Most erotica collections are pretty uneven in terms of quality, and buying a whole book is more trouble and more expensive than trying out a piece of fan fic. It's not that hard to find fan fic that's just as good or, sometimes, better than professionally published erotica.