Sentences with phrase «sections of some ebook retailers»

Amid the uproar and media firestorm surrounding the recent discovery of inappropriate subject matter available in the children's digital sections of some ebook retailers» websites, Kobo and several other self - publishing platforms took a bold stance and blocked self - published titles from sale until a thorough review... [Read more...]

Amid the uproar and media firestorm surrounding the recent discovery of inappropriate subject matter available in the children's digital sections of some ebook retailers» websites, Kobo and several other self - publishing platforms took a bold stance and blocked self - published titles from sale until a thorough review could be conducted.

Not exact matches

In the post — which got a surprisingly low number of critics in the comments section — the writer points to the need for authors to only advertise two retailers for their ebooks and one retailer — Amazon — for their print editions.

The first can be traced back to the recent scandal of inappropriate content being intentionally shelved in the children's ebook sections of major retail websites.

In the post — which got a surprisingly low number of critics in the comments section — the writer points to the need for authors to only advertise two retailers for their ebooks and one... [Read more...]

This requirement of an interest age rating may have stemmed from the recent controversy surrounding explicit titles that were available — some say maliciously so, which a self - policed interest age rating may not prevent — in the children's book sections of a variety of ebook retail websites, an issue that caused several retailers to make sweeping deletions of book titles until the matter could be resolved.

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.