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Originally Posted by Robertb
The idea here is to get the content that women want. Sure, women read a lot of eBooks that are anyything but romance... but just how erotic do female interests go?
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I read both romance and erotica. I like erotica more, but there's less of it that's well-written, well-edited, and well-formatted as ebooks. (Except for fanfiction, of which there's an incredible amount of well-written erotica. But that doesn't help you build an ebook store.)
I've bought from Samhain, Freya's Bower, Torquere & MLR press. Haven't yet bought from Dreamspinner (they're fairly new) or Ellora's Cave; I think I remember their store interface annoying me and I gave up on buying direct from them. If I've gotten anything of theirs from Fictionwise, it's slipped my mind.
My tastes run towards the extreme/explicit. At allromanceebooks, I rarely click on the descriptions of anything with less than five flames. When I want plot, I'll read a mystery; when I want intriguing idea-play, I'll read sci-fi. I read erotica for hot sex scenes. I want characters who are plausible (but I don't need to know much about them), enough plot to provide a background (but again, don't need much in the way of details--just enough that I'm not thrown out of the book), and well-written erotic action. (And I probably shouldn't be more specific than that in a public post.)
There's room for the possibility of an author offering both erotica and non-erotica in the same world, with some crossover characters, and I'd be more likely to buy both books if that were the case.
I don't like racist, sexist or other oppressive tropes in erotica (or other fiction, but they show up in erotica a lot--abused slave girl, big violent black man, etc.). Don't like "it's rape, and then she falls in love with him!" stories. Don't like monogamy either, but that's much harder to avoid--but I won't buy a second book by an author who focuses a lot on jealousy and "ownership" between the two characters.