Tuesday, March 1, 2011

B&N, why do you suck so hard?

As a followup to my last post, compare B&N's Current PubIt Bestsellers list (on the right of the page) to the actual list of bestselling PubIt books. What's missing from the former? You got it-- any and all erotic romance titles.

3 comments:

  1. I foresee this becoming a bigger and bigger problem in the future. I find it interesting that they're not (or maybe they are) pulling the excerpts from other spicy traditionally published books.

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  2. They don't seem to be pulling them from traditional titles, but I could certainly be wrong. We've been discussing this on Kindleboards, and my personal guess is that indie success has led to problems-- ie, the prevalence of erotica in the top PubIt sellers has caused some people to be offended, and to start clicking "report this" in large quantities. That's just speculation, though *shrugs*.

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  3. Yeah, I've seen the report this button. I think that's a very dangerous thing to have under every book because it can and WILL lead to censorship. :(

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