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There's a major difference, though, between condemnation of a book, and trying to ensure that nobody is allowed to read it. It's one thing to try to convince other people that your opinion of a book is valid: that's healthy debate. It's another thing entirely to pressurise a publisher not to publish a book that you personally find offensive: that's attempting to forcibly impose your moral standards on others.
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![]() As long as your review only covers that which you did.review: " I hated the cover because..." "The book was poorly assembled and fell apart before I got to the 'Title page" "There were 5 typos/spelling errors in the Prologue. Why continue to read?" |
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I think that most smut peddlers miscategorize because they are gaming the system to put their book titles in front of more eyes rather than to avoid potential censorship by Amazon. It's a bit like sending out spam, the more eyes that see it, the more likely you are to pick up a sale or two. |
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What's all this about mobs worshiping David Lynch? When did Lynch start writing young adult novels and what are they like? Are the illustrations by the late Francis Bacon's floating pastrami exorcist?
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Is it really censorship if the person knows that Amazon doesn't sell that type of reading material? They are certainly free to sell elsewhere. I know one erotic writer that puts out 3 different versions of the same story. He categorizes correctly. He puts his Amazon allowed on Amazon. He puts the not Amazon allowed on other book sellers. Different partners. |
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Meanwhile, I've been reading Ian Brady's The Gates of Janus. What if someone confected a young adult novel out of that? I can see the applauding emoticons even now.
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Next time I am in a convenience store, I will have to look at a magazine rack. I was thinking clear plastic back then. This was in Lincoln Ne. Made a nice sound to catch the wannabe readers not buyers. When busy, yelling across the store, "you open it, you buy it" caused many to go someplace where the clerk didn't have a birds eye view of the magazine rack.
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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wopHYlQEv7s https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sFukyIIM1XI And yes, the techniques we're seeing predate McCArthy and Salem and the Inquisition. Although the Inquisition example best fits these catfights. |
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I'm bookmarking it for the next catfight. I need to buy more Hoyt books. ![]() |
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Not all are controlling. Many are merely vacuous, or bland, or just plain idiots. Generally good looking, but still idiots. When it comes to romance I prefer romcoms instead of the straight, earnest stuff. In those you*expect* fools. Just me, of course. Romance is an endless gold deposit for those able to mine it well. |
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