More on EStores and Taboo Ebooks

The conflict is continuing, and so is the dialog. I just wanted to add a few things.

1. There is no reason for eStores to remove non-taboo related works. Really, as much as it squicks me, there’s not much of a reason to remove faux incest and barely legal works. But they should be restricted in some way from appearing on searches for childrens books. That’s a duh. I REALLLLLLY don’t want my daughter looking for books and finding “Taking My Drunk Daughter” or anything.

2. If you’re an author and you’re putting more famous authors in your tags, uploading a “clean” copy to get approval then changing it to  “real” copy after approval, etc. then you KNOW you are gaming the system. You don’t have a lot of recourse when you get caught. Same for if you knowingly publish books that violate the terms of service. Bitching when you get caught doesn’t help your case.

3. And if you didn’t know it was against the TOS, why didn’t you read the TOS in the first place?

4. Being upset? Even if you know you’re in the wrong? Fine. That doesn’t make this a jihad. Or a sexist campaign to attack women. (Way to imply only women read erotica.) Also rhetoric that hurts your case instead of helping.

These are the issues I have. But that doesn’t mean that the wide scale removal of indie books is right. Or that Taboo erotica isn’t squicky.