It's happened with everything from works that included parts of other works to other issues
with erotica titles and more.
Not exact matches
With a
title that makes it sound like an 18th - century costume drama — perhaps a cousin to Jacques Rivette's recent Balzac adaptation, The Duchess Of Langeais — and a marketing campaign that sells it as kinky
erotica, Peter Strickland's The Duke Of Burgundy risks attracting exactly the wrong crowd.
Other
titles by Leigh include Forced To Fuck Daddy In Diapers: Step Dad ABDL Regression Fantasy (teen girl taboo fetish
erotica) and Forced By Grandpa: Defloration And Anal Sex
With My Step Grandpa And His Cock (taboo old man young girl sex
erotica).
After watching spy novelist Jeremy Duns express his surprise on Twitter that the
titles were freely available for sale, The Kernel's reporting team purchased a copy of Naughty Daughter Abducted And Pounded By Daddy's Cock: Anal Sex And BDSM
With My Step Father (taboo daddy daughter
erotica) by Shannon Leigh.
While I haven't seen much about this, at least not when compared
with some of the uproar a few weeks ago over reviews disappearing, there's enough talk about it to have me suggesting anyone who has published a romance
title that might fall into
erotica or the «harder» romances check your
titles.
The filters included price caps and limits on specific genres, the exclusion of certain genres, such as
erotica, and special dealing
with such items as romance
titles.
Given that we had 10,000
titles to work
with, excluding the
erotica would give us more science fiction, mystery, romance, and the genre fiction that our readers really love.»
These bundled digital files are offered by both stand alone authors who lump their
titles together, such as Ella Fox's first four books in the Hart Family series, or by a group of authors — such as the four
erotica authors behind The Naughty List — who piggyback existing
titles with each others» works for added promotion and publicity, ebook bundling is a way to make additional income and grow a fan base through digital.
Lothlorien actually released two versions of the same ebook earlier this year when she republished her Sleeping Beauty to veer off into an alternate ending, allowing fans to opt for which ending they felt best about; interestingly, Lothlorien is also releasing the same
title as an
erotica ebook
with the same plotlines and characters but
with the romantic element punched up for fans who look for a little more detail in their
titles.
Baylee, who currently has eight
erotica titles available, specifically had some issues
with the way ebooks were to be priced via the Amazon.ca site, as opposed to when they were originally sold via Amazon.com.
They all basically blame indie authors for putting their
erotica titles side by side
with children's books, hampering eBook discovery and raising a firestorm.
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.
Now, does this justify removing en masse a bunch of
titles that can be classed as
erotica and only doing them
with self - published
titles?
What's worse is that a lot of the porn wasn't even comics; the graphic novel department had become a dumping - ground for ad - hoc collections of ripped - off hardcore JPGs and
erotica with titles like «Attack From Behind!»
So trying to compare market health based on unit sales in a small rank range — especially when working
with stores that have been known to suppress sales of racy
titles (even if they weren't
erotica) and exclude them from the Top 100 mix — is a pretty tough challenge.
This was illustrated by rival ebook subscription service Scribd when it dumped lots of romance and
erotica titles from its line - up in July because they were too popular
with readers and cost the company too much.