Fan-fiction creators receive 20-35 percent of the profits, Amazon gets a 30 percent cut, and the author of the original content gets 35 percent in royalties. As for the claim that paid mods are just one more way for “greedy” publishers to make money off the community, one has to look no further than Amazon’s Kindle Worlds fan-fiction programme. Modders would be entitled to 25 percent of the profits, with the remainder split between Valve with its obligatory 30 percent cut, and Bethesda, which was to keep 45 percent. Let’s look at the situation in context: Around two weeks ago, Valve announced that Skyrim mod creators publishing on the Steam Workshop would now have the option to make their mods paid, if they so desired.
