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pull to publish en · VERB

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:
- 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:
- 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

Spelling	Features	Source
pulled to publish	Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part	lexicographic
pulled to publish	Tense=Past	lexicographic
pulls to publish	Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres	lexicographic
pulling to publish	Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part	lexicographic