Re:Amazon Taking Down Erotica, Removing From Kindles
by prodigal_erik on Wednesday December 15, 2010 @02:05PM
(#2009330)
Murder is illegal everywhere, but writing about it hasn't yet become crimethink.
Re:Amazon Taking Down Erotica, Removing From Kindles
by rprasad on Wednesday December 15, 2010 @06:01PM
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Writing about it isn't crimethink. But it's highly undesirable for a commercial company to be associated with incest erotica.
Amazon made a business decision to stop publishing incest-erotica through its own publishing label. It did not ban other publishers from publishing that crap in its store.
Amazon is not taking down erotica. They still have a very large and healthy erotica/romance section.
What they are doing is removing incest-erotica published by Amazon's Createspace. According to the pages the author links to in his post, incest-erotica from other publishers remains available for sale.
Incest, by the way, is illegal in most of America, except possibly in the South. It's no different from Amazon removing bestiality-erotica or pedophilia-erotica published under its own label.
Long story short: if you want to publish incest-erotica, don't publish through Amazon's CreateSpace.