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Originally Posted by Blossom
Wouldn't it makes sense just to take all the Erotica category and make it opt in instead of removing it though? Then the ones showing up still could be comb through but I have heard from several authors they are just randomly going through books quarantining them.  I have no clue how they are going to fix it that way. There are thousands of titles on there. 
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! |
But the problem is many of the self-pubbed erotica authors do not include erotica as a tag on their books. Some were trying to game the system.
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
