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Hmm, the new Destiny romances released yesterday still aren't available at Kobo and THE coupon expires today
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This is censorship is the highest form. While I do know there are books on there that shouldn't and to remove everything that they think is bad is not a good business practice. I expected them to just remove all titles but they are actually picking titles and going through them one by one. And to pick Thanksgiving to do it of all times was the most stupid move I have seen by a company. |
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They pretty much had to block entire publishing sources, so that they could get back into those stores overseas (all of their trad publishing books were being blocked in the UK by Whitesmith, for example). There are also changing laws in the UK making it illegal just to show certain covers if no opt-in has been signed up for. They'll need to change their website (and screening of books, as the publishers and authors are intentionally mis-classifying them to try to get more returns in searches) before they let them back in, I'm afraid.
Amazon has been doing something similar, but didn't do a wholesale block (some authors and publishers are being banned tho - there's no requirement for Amazon or anyone else to sell certain books, only the right of the author to publish it ... even if that means at his own expense and with limited distribution). So, here are some freebies from Wild Rose at Amazon, for those missing the selection at Kobo: http://www.amazon.com/s/?url=search-...e%22&price=0-0 |
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Amazon has been doing what they should. I do see the need for moderating the content and I think Amazon is doing okay on that. We know how much after wading through the slush pile to suddenly need brain bleach to get those images out of our heads. ick! |
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They will set new filters and the books will eventually be back for people to purchase. A bunch of titles have been pulled from Amazon as well. And the authors have to republish them there, too. I can see both sides of this issue. And while I do think Kobo and Amazon overreacted by pulling so many titles, the book distributor that didn't have filters in place is also to blame. As are the authors who relabeled/retitled their books so they would show up when popular middle-grade authors names were searched. Many self-pubbed authors I have seen ranting on twitter about censorship and such simply do not have their facts straight. As for new titles, the Harlequin US stuff that released today is there. Just not the Aussie stuff. Oh well, it is not as if I don't have enough to read Last edited by library addict; 10-15-2013 at 04:16 PM. |
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Do you have any idea how much this hurts those authors who are trying to make a living? I feel for them they are losing alot of sales and have done nothing wrong. Why should they be punished because there are others out there who violated the system. It's just not right and the time of the year makes it even worse. |
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I have no clue what they think are doing. If you check your library for self published erotica you will see books missing. Luckily most of us here know to back them all up. |
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I still see plenty of smut... 42k erotica titles on the Canadian site, lots of self-pubbed. And when I use my US account (I get the old site, go figure) and 52k titles there and lots of smut. Were the number of titles considerably higher previously? |
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They pulled everything from Draft 2 Digital and some other distributors. So it was a bunch of self-published ranging from sweet to erotica as well as other genres other than romance. It's supposed to be back up within a week.
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10-15-2013, 05:32 PM | #390 |
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Here's a nice 10 book box set for 11/10/13 pre-order on Kindle.
Dangerous Attraction Romantic Suspense -$0.99 The Kaylea Cross alone makes worthwhile for me.
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