Citations:pull-to-publish

Verb: "(publishing) to withdraw a work of fan fiction from circulation and commercially publish a reworked version of it as original fiction"

 * 2014, Joseph Brennan & David Large, "‘Let's Get a Bit of Context’: Fifty Shades and the Phenomenon of ‘Pulling to Publish’ in Twilight Fan Fiction", Media International Australia, Volume 152, Issue 1, August 2014, page 28:
 * Such a definition allows us to consider the implications of ‘pulling to publish’ Twilight fanfics.
 * 2015, Lauren Sarner, "Tiffany Reisz Would Rather Add in More Sex Than More Romance", Inverse, 8 October 2015:
 * Having been a fan fiction writer, I know how easily you can get a massive fan following when you’re writing characters who are already known and beloved. If I had pulled to publish my story, I would have brought an audience with me, but I thought that was unethical.
 * 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:
 * 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
 * 2016, Monica Flegel & Jenny Roth, "Writing a New Text: The Role of Cyberculture in Fanfiction Writers’ Transition to 'Legitimate' Publishing", Contemporary Women's Writing, Volume 10, Issue 2, July 2016:
 * The sample size is small, which is not surprising – authors who “pull to publish” often face criticism from other fans
 * 2019, R. Lyle Skains, Digital Authorship: Publishing in the Attention Economy, page 68:
 * 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.
 * 2020, Jessica Birthisel, "The Good, the Bad, and the Kinky: Erotic Romance Writing in a Post-Fifty Shades of Grey Landscape", in Communication in Kink: Understanding the Influence of the Fifty Shades of Grey Phenomenon (ed. Jessica M. W. Kratzer), page 69:
 * Some of this authorly discord started in the earliest iterations of the series, with James's decision to "pull to publish" from the fanfiction communities in which she developed Master of the Universe ten years ago.

Adjective: "(publishing) produced by or related to this method of publication"

 * 2015, Tekla Ann Hawkins, "Fanfiction as Playable Media", dissertation submitted to The University of Texas at Austin, page 16:
 * Its enormous popularity has opened ground for many other pull-to-publish novels, and also for widespread mocking of fandom and fanfiction.
 * 2019, R. Lyle Skains, Digital Authorship: Publishing in the Attention Economy, page 68:
 * James chose to self-publish through The Writers’ Coffee Shop (which specialized in publishing pull-to-publish fanfic via POD),