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Censorship
Hi Folks,
After two-and-a-half years of blood sweat and writer's block I finally finished the Great Novel. (My first one.) Never mind an 800 pounder, it was like getting a 2 ton gorilla off my back! All I had to now is format and upload to Amazon. Not so fast! When I checked out the Contents page on Kindle Help I discovered the following:
WE DON'T ACCEPT PORNOGRAPHY OR OFFENSIVE DEPICTIONS OF GRAPHIC SEXUAL ACTS.
I have no problem with the pornography aversion but the other bit is giving sleepless nights. The Great Novel has several sexual scenes in them and they are described in quite specific - some might say 'graphic' - ways. It all depends on the sensitivity and moral perceptions of the reader. The questions for the forum are: have any you ever fallen foul of Amazon's Content rule? How strictly is it applied? Do you think - if they had been unknown - people like Henry Miller, Nabokov, D.H. Lawrence, John Updike, Marquis de Sade, Chaucer and Harold Robbins would have had their work published under that rule?
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