Kobo recently raised the ire of some
authors due to restrictions in its self - publishing platform, Writing Life, due to the appearance of
erotica and adult - themed self - published ebooks making their way into online book retailers» children's sections, with the end result being a statement from the company that they will not consider for sale certain inappropriate thematic elements and that, like most of the other retailers including Amazon and Barnes and Noble, they would be deleting titles whose metadata or keywords
seemed intentionally misleading.