October 14, 2013
Well...I Guess That My Window of Opertunity....
...to purchase Taken by the T-Rex has passed.
Via Instapundit we learn that Amazon, B&N and other E-Book publishers are removing all self published E-Books from their virtual shelves, while they go through them and discover if there is any designated naughtiness amongst them.
This is a gut-punch to the self published E-book industry and hurts a lot of authors. I certainly carry no brief for the subject matter and would not gripe if Amazon instituted a "no incest" policy, but this sweeping action is both lazy and hurtful. If it continues it will kill an emerging industry.
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Via Instapundit we learn that Amazon, B&N and other E-Book publishers are removing all self published E-Books from their virtual shelves, while they go through them and discover if there is any designated naughtiness amongst them.
Their statement ends with the conclusion that the website will be operational again "once all self published eBooks have been removed and we are totally sure that there are no offending titles available.†When that will be, they did not say.
This is a gut-punch to the self published E-book industry and hurts a lot of authors. I certainly carry no brief for the subject matter and would not gripe if Amazon instituted a "no incest" policy, but this sweeping action is both lazy and hurtful. If it continues it will kill an emerging industry.
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Whatcha gonna do, though?
These are big companies, and they have a lot of employees. Some of those employees are going to look at this sort of thing and say "not at my business" and walk. Even people with no actual attachment to it... and you couldn't say they'd be wrong to do so. Would you be happy working for Valve if it turned out they had a Department of Baby Mulching?
And, even more importantly, they've got customers who think along the same lines. I can mentally compartmentalize and say "it's not a problem, buying manga and tchotchkes from a company which is also selling dinosaur porn," but not everyone is going to look at it like that... and, frankly, the amounts of money being spent by the easily-squicked are probably greater than the amounts of money being made by aficionados of dino porn, etc.
I can't even really blame Amazon etc. for what's going on. If you look down and see your pants are on fire, you don't carefully spritz the sections which are burning so you can keep the rest of them dry - you get out of the darn things and douse them thoroughly, even if it means showing your bum a little.
At the end of the day, big respectable companies can't really be all-comers markets with no eye towards what they're peddling.
These are big companies, and they have a lot of employees. Some of those employees are going to look at this sort of thing and say "not at my business" and walk. Even people with no actual attachment to it... and you couldn't say they'd be wrong to do so. Would you be happy working for Valve if it turned out they had a Department of Baby Mulching?
And, even more importantly, they've got customers who think along the same lines. I can mentally compartmentalize and say "it's not a problem, buying manga and tchotchkes from a company which is also selling dinosaur porn," but not everyone is going to look at it like that... and, frankly, the amounts of money being spent by the easily-squicked are probably greater than the amounts of money being made by aficionados of dino porn, etc.
I can't even really blame Amazon etc. for what's going on. If you look down and see your pants are on fire, you don't carefully spritz the sections which are burning so you can keep the rest of them dry - you get out of the darn things and douse them thoroughly, even if it means showing your bum a little.
At the end of the day, big respectable companies can't really be all-comers markets with no eye towards what they're peddling.
Posted by: Avatar_exADV at Mon Oct 14 21:21:19 2013 (pWQz4)
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That's a good point and as I said, it wouldn't bug me if they just said "NO! HELL NO!" to certain things.It's a private business. But the sweeping removal of all indie E-Books until they can be vetted strikes me as a bit worrisome.
As to what I'm gonna do? Lets see...probably go eat some chicken and then go play Fallout 3.
That's a good point and as I said, it wouldn't bug me if they just said "NO! HELL NO!" to certain things.It's a private business. But the sweeping removal of all indie E-Books until they can be vetted strikes me as a bit worrisome.
As to what I'm gonna do? Lets see...probably go eat some chicken and then go play Fallout 3.
Posted by: The Brickmuppet at Mon Oct 14 21:37:35 2013 (DnAJl)
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