{{Short description|Defunct publisher service}} '''Kindle Worlds''' was a publisher service of the online retailer Amazon, devoted to providing a commercial venue for fan fiction creations of specific licensed media properties. It was established on May 22, 2013, as part of Amazon Publishing.<ref name="cnnmoney"/> In August 2018, Amazon shut down the Kindle Worlds website.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://the-digital-reader.com/2018/05/15/amazon-to-shut-down-kindle-worlds/|title=Amazon to Shut Down Kindle Worlds - The Digital Reader|date=15 May 2018|publisher=}}</ref>
The purpose of this service was to publish fan fiction stories of certain licensed media properties to be sold in the Kindle Store with terms including 35% of net sales for works of 10,000 words or more and 20% for short fiction ranging from 5000 to 10,000 words.<ref name="cnnmoney">{{cite news|last=Pepitone|first=Julianne|title=Amazon's "Kindle Worlds" lets fan fiction writers sell their stories|url=https://money.cnn.com/2013/05/23/technology/amazon-fan-fiction/?iid=HP_LN&hpt=us_bn5|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130615043153/http://money.cnn.com/2013/05/23/technology/amazon-fan-fiction/?iid=HP_LN&hpt=us_bn5|url-status=dead|archive-date=June 15, 2013|accessdate=23 May 2013|newspaper=CNN Money|date=3 May 2013}}</ref>
Stories hosted on the service were required to abide by some restrictions, including a ban on pornographic or offensive content and copyright violations. The stories had to be correctly formatted and were prohibited from using misleading titles.<ref>{{cite web|title=Kindle Worlds for Authors|url=https://money.cnn.com/2013/05/23/technology/amazon-fan-fiction/?iid=HP_LN&hpt=us_bn5|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130615043153/http://money.cnn.com/2013/05/23/technology/amazon-fan-fiction/?iid=HP_LN&hpt=us_bn5|url-status=dead|archive-date=June 15, 2013|work=Kindle Words| date=23 May 2013 |publisher=Amazon.com|accessdate=24 May 2013}}</ref>
==Licensed properties== * ''The Arrangement'' * ''The Abnorm Chronicles'' * ''Body Movers'' * ''The Dead Man'' * ''The Foreworld Saga'' * ''G.I. Joe'' * ''Gossip Girl'' * ''The Lizzy Gardner Files'' * ''Veronica Mars'' * ''Pretty Little Liars'' * ''John Rain'' * ''Ravenswood'' * ''Silo'' * ''Valiant Comics'' * ''The Vampire Diaries'' * ''Wayward Pines'' * ''The World of Kurt Vonnegut'' * ''X-O Manowar''
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==External links== * [https://www.amazon.com/b?ie=UTF8&node=6118587011 Kindle Worlds Store] * [https://kindleworlds.amazon.com/ Official website for Kindle Worlds authors] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140629093516/https://kindleworlds.amazon.com/ |date=2014-06-29 }}
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