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Originally Posted by fjtorres
How generous of them, to *allow* legal products to be sold through their system.
Now, pray tell, was Smashwords selling any illegal titles?  |
If it truly means, "we allow all legal texts to be sold with our system," it's more generous than most payment providers. Most don't allow "pornographic or sexual content," and don't bother defining "pornographic."
Smashwords was almost certainly not selling any illegal titles. It's possible a few are in other places, because some of the manga out there gets pretty explicit, and the exact lines for "obscenity" are hard to parse. The lines for "child pornography" are easy in the US: it has to involve a real human child. (Even one who's used as a model for pen-and-ink art would count.) If the pictures are all of entirely fictional characters, with no underage human models used in production, it's not child porn no matter what it looks like. (In the US. Other countries have different laws.)
I doubt any manga that qualified as "obscenity" today would be getting any sales. Having *any* artistic or literary value is a pretty low bar to reach.