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Originally Posted by altworld
First rule of self-publishing... Money flows to the Author  |
Yes.
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Originally Posted by VydorScope
Marj... you know that was forced on them right?
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Well, no. My email from Mark Corker said Paypal told Smashwords what it was allowed to sell, and Mark Corker decided he would rather negotiate than break with PayPal. We all have choices, and that is the choice Smashwords has chosen.
I, too, am a beginning self publishing author. Personally, I was willing to try out Smashwords and risk the meatgrinder and all, but the deal breaker for me was that Smashwords will only pay authors outside the US with PayPal. I plan to phase in the same policy for American writers as well. And I will not deal with PayPal.
Because I refused to set up a PayPal account, I will never get paid for whatever copies of my eBook were sold there. That was my choice, even before the censorship thing.
Ironically, even though my novel is not erotica, since it deals with rape, one of the subjects PayPal outlawed, I would not be allowed to sell it under the new Smashwords censorship policy anyway. One of the main reasons I elected to self publish was so I would make the decisions. Not Smashwords, or PayPal.
I have no problem with a ratings system to prevent people from accidentally happening on material they would find offensive and to protect minors, but censorship is not an acceptable option if free speech is to exist.
The idea of corporate entities censoring what adults may read is disturbing. That PayPal should have the power to dictate human morality is ludicrous..