sr71plt
Literotica Guru
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Did you actually read their guidelines, Box (and absorb what you read)? How in a 4,000-word story is the blurb you wrote not an out-and-out porn piece? What saving literary message do you have in there? (The point being that both Amazon and Smashwords flatly say in their guidelines they won't permit pornography.) And how is that not nudity on your cover? It's full nudity times two--Smashwords might even see it as a sex act being depicted--and the Smashwords guidelines don't even go to the "full nudity" level; they just say nudity on the cover is banned. (Smashwords once made my publisher put a short skirt on a Spartan warrior showing his butt.)
I think what is more surprising is how much these distributors let go through unchallenged on the basis of their guidelines. Not complaining, of course, just surprised at how lax they usually are.
It looks to me like you got caught for something you actually did. Hard to boo hoo for you for that. You just take your risks of taking lumps when you play on the edge.
Isn't this discussion better located in the AH, by the way?
I think what is more surprising is how much these distributors let go through unchallenged on the basis of their guidelines. Not complaining, of course, just surprised at how lax they usually are.
It looks to me like you got caught for something you actually did. Hard to boo hoo for you for that. You just take your risks of taking lumps when you play on the edge.
Isn't this discussion better located in the AH, by the way?
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