Comments on: PayPal Censors the Erotic Content of Indie Ebook Publishers

By: endymion

endymion — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 14:49:03 +0000

Every once in a while I think to myself: “Why not finally get a paypal account? After all, everybody seems to be using it.”
Then, I read stuff like this and get reminded of all the sh… they pulled off in the past and I decide I can wait a little longer for a suitable replacement…

By: D

Mon, 27 Feb 2012 21:42:21 +0000

Given how long everyone has known that Paypal is corrupt, isn’t it about time somebody started a competitor? I mean, there’s at least one major story of Paypal screwing somebody over royally for no apparent reason every year, never mind the ones that don’t manage to make the major blogs.

By: violet blue

violet blue — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 21:18:50 +0000

As for All Romance, their letter to authors said that everyone must now categorize their work as either romance ["Erotic Romance"] or porn ["Erotica"] and that the porn/Erotica category will be phased out. The entire letter is in the update of this post, at the bottom:

http://selenakitt.com/blog/index.php/2012/02/19/slippery-slope-erotica-censorship/

Let me know if this is not correct reading of the letter. I was particularly dismayed that they told their authors that logging in signifies their agreement to new Terms (could you imagine if Facebook tried to pull this?) and if they disagree their termination will be accepted.

By: Billy Bob

Billy Bob — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 16:44:30 +0000

Everyone continually complains about paypal sucking… and then keeps using it. Well, screw that and quit using paypal. I don’t have a paypal account and when I see that paypal is the only payment option I look for another vendor.

By: Johnny Murdoc

Johnny Murdoc — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 16:34:37 +0000

Even Google Checkout’s “unacceptable products” includes erotic literature, so they’re not a reasonable replacement either.

By: Elf M. Sternberg

Elf M. Sternberg — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 14:30:47 +0000

When you’ve reached the point where this is a concern, you should have long moved over to using a real card clearing program like zombaio or even google checkout.

By: Nobilis Reed

Nobilis Reed — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 13:31:15 +0000

I’m not sure that ArE has actually decided not to publish erotica. They’re separating the two, and asking publishers to mark their titles as one or the other (a scary development in itself) but they haven’t removed the erotica, yet.

They’ve merely made it easier to do so in the future.