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.