Amazon at war with monster porn

[Svartalf]

Times News Feed

According to a long-read at Business Insider, “cryptozoological erotica” readers and writers are in as precarious a situation as a college co-ed who finds herself trapped in ancient ruins with a libidinous Minotaur.

Following the October publication of The Kernel’s soon-viral article called “An Epidemic of Filth,” which called out online book purveyors for selling ebooks with ”rape fantasies, incest porn and graphic descriptions of bestiality and child abuse,” online publishers have been making it much more difficult to buy and sell monster porn. Business Insider reports that Amazon has been particularly on the offensive against the genre.

The Cum for Bigfoot series might not be on the road to winning a Pulitzer, but the self published ebook — a part of the widely popular “monster porn” genre — has a dedicated following that makes author Virginia Wade a net of $30,000 or more in a good month.

Wade and other authors have noticed that ebooks that have been available for more than a year are getting pulled from virtual sales for “being in violation of [Amazon's] content guidelines,” although the publisher won’t disclose what the violation is. While some erotica is allowed, authors said that they are noticing taboo subject matter (like human/velociraptor relations) is taking a big hit.

Erotica authors have noticed that covertly changing cover art, book descriptions (which is problematic since readers then don’t know the graphic scenes in store), and titles have allowed them to put their books back on the shelves, it is taking a significant toll on sales. Emerald Ice told Business Insider that she was able to reinstate Alien Sex Slave after changing its name, but her sales have plummeted because ”If I was a reader searching for hot alien sex books, I wouldn’t look twice at something called Sidney’s Alien Escapades.“

$30,000 dollars in a month for writing monster porn. Jeeze, I could probably do that.

[Xamonas Chegwé]

That niche has been cornered. You need to find a new one. Perhaps... Monster Truck Pr0n? Or Munster Pr0n?

[Svartalf]

I'll leave it to Tatt and SteveB, but I'm raging.

[Warren Dew]

Clearly there's an opening for an adult online bookstore here.

[JimC]

Beowulf raping Grendel?

Or, more likely, vice-versa...

[Svartalf]

Ariadne sating the Minotaur's lusts

[Thinking Aloud]

Clearly there's an opening for an adult online bookstore here.

Possibly - but part of the draw for customers will be being able to order "a book" from a regular "online bookseller" that doesn't draw attention to what they're buying. "Amazon" on your CC statement is easy to explain; "TentaclesAndFurInYourPussy.com" less so.

[tattuchu]

I'll leave it to Tatt and SteveB, but I'm raging.

It's a good thing no one actually buys my books. If they did, they'd probably be pulled from sale as well
Not sure I could write monster porn. I usually only write things that come from fucked up dreams. And while my dreams are occasionally fucked up, they're not quite that fucked up

[Warren Dew]

Clearly there's an opening for an adult online bookstore here.

Possibly - but part of the draw for customers will be being able to order "a book" from a regular "online bookseller" that doesn't draw attention to what they're buying. "Amazon" on your CC statement is easy to explain; "TentaclesAndFurInYourPussy.com" less so.

So buy the Borders name out of bankruptcy and use that.