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Key Points in the Erotica Book Banning Hijinks

For previous posts on the erotica banning, see this timeline up to before the announcement by Smashwords yesterday and this first round-up link. Conspiracy Theories In general, I [..]

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[SEE NEWER LIST] Erotica Book Banning Round-Up

[ETA 1: For my previous in-depth post on the PayPal / Visa / MasterCard / Siren-BookStrand / All Romance eBooks Book Banning Fiasco, go here.] [ETA 2: I [..]

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PayPal, eBay, Visa, and MasterCard Equate All Kinky Erotica with Pr0n

Trouble in the Erotic Midlists The latest bad news in the fight against moral prudery has reared its ugly head in the erotica writing community. Here’s a short [..]

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Unofficial Blackout

I was going to black out this blog for tomorrow in solidarity against SOPA/PIPA (the so-called “anti-piracy” bills currently working their way through the U.S. Houses of Congress. [..]

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Don’t Waste Your Career

Dean Wesley Smith has another great blog post up explaining the shifts in the role of agents over the past 100 years in the publishing industry. Go read [..]

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