pull to publish

present singular third person pulls to publish · participle present pulling to publish · participle past pulled to publish · past pulled to publish

1. To withdraw a work of fan fiction from circulation and commercially publish a reworked version of it as original fiction.

   Such a definition allows us to consider the implications of ‘pulling to publish’ Twilight fanfics.

   2014 August, Joseph Brennan, David Large, “‘Let's Get a Bit of Context’: Fifty Shades and the Phenomenon of ‘Pulling to Publish’ in Twilight Fan Fiction”, in Media International Australia, volume 152, number 1, page 28

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   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 […]

   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

   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.

   2019, R. Lyle Skains, Digital Authorship: Publishing in the Attention Economy, page 68