PayPal Revises Policies to Allow Legal Fiction

[JackLuis]

I couldn't find the thread where LC68 was bitching about Pay Pal, however it looks like they came to Jesus.

According to Samshwords blog.

In a victory for free speech, PayPal today announced plans to revise their content policies to allow Smashwords writers full freedom to publish and sell legal ebooks.

I met with PayPal at their offices yesterday in San Jose. They outlined their proposed policy changes for me. I was impressed.

This is a victory for all writers and readers. It removes credit card companies, banks and payment processors from the business of censoring legal fiction. It creates a new precedent that should allow other payment processors who have previously discriminated against legal fiction to relax their policies.

It will make more fiction more available to more readers. It gives writers greater freedom to express themselves. It gives readers more freedom to decide what they want to experience in the privacy of their own imagination.

Yeah!

 

[lovecraft68]

I couldn't find the thread where LC68 was bitching about Pay Pal, however it looks like they came to Jesus.

According to Samshwords blog.



Yeah!

Hmmm, you couldn't find that thread because it went back to the beginning of 2012 when Paypal tried to pull their shit(and for the record they were caught with egg on their face when the CC companies denied their claims)

But what you're reporting here is obviously old news and they came around because Smashwords and others didn't just say "Yes sir and fold" and the more they fought the more Paypal turned tail because they were lying in the first place.

Unfortunately before they "found Jesus" many panicked and were dumping authors left and right and a few sites even closed.

What paypal was so magnanimously "allowing" is freedom of speech. Like Amazon and their owners E-bay(although they run as separate entities.) they tried to just do what they wanted, and they were within their legal rights to.

Their mistake was claiming they had letters from the CC companies and were trying to blame Mastercard and Visa for their BS. Those letters could never be produced and Visa made a statement they had no idea what Paypal was talking about.

Found Jesus my ass, they were saving face.

 

[JackLuis]

Hmmm, you couldn't find that thread because it went back to the beginning of 2012 when Paypal tried to pull their shit(and for the record they were caught with egg on their face when the CC companies denied their claims)

Found Jesus my ass, they were saving face.

Silly me I saw the 2012 date and thought it was this year. I need to get out more.
Still it's good news, right?

 

[glynndah]

So, my Perry Mason books are safe once more?

 

[TxRad]

So, my Perry Mason books are safe once more?

I thought those were Merry Pason books.

 

[Candlelight062]

Hey, LC . . . did Amazon lift their ban on incest-themed books?
Just the other day I found an author who writes Daddy/Daughter fiction and she has all her books on Amazon! The latest was published on March 13, 2013, I believe.

Do you know if this is now allowed? Because it hadn't been for a looooong time.

Thanks!

Hmmm, you couldn't find that thread because it went back to the beginning of 2012 when Paypal tried to pull their shit(and for the record they were caught with egg on their face when the CC companies denied their claims)

But what you're reporting here is obviously old news and they came around because Smashwords and others didn't just say "Yes sir and fold" and the more they fought the more Paypal turned tail because they were lying in the first place.

Unfortunately before they "found Jesus" many panicked and were dumping authors left and right and a few sites even closed.

What paypal was so magnanimously "allowing" is freedom of speech. Like Amazon and their owners E-bay(although they run as separate entities.) they tried to just do what they wanted, and they were within their legal rights to.

Their mistake was claiming they had letters from the CC companies and were trying to blame Mastercard and Visa for their BS. Those letters could never be produced and Visa made a statement they had no idea what Paypal was talking about.

Found Jesus my ass, they were saving face.

 

[lovecraft68]

Silly me I saw the 2012 date and thought it was this year. I need to get out more.
Still it's good news, right?

Yes it really was.

Funny thing is that like everything else (most recently guns) you threaten to take something away and people experienc3 fear of loss and spend. MY sales for Feb 2012 were (at the time) by far the best I'd ever had on incest titles.

 

[lovecraft68]

Hey, LC . . . did Amazon lift their ban on incest-themed books?
Just the other day I found an author who writes Daddy/Daughter fiction and she has all her books on Amazon! The latest was published on March 13, 2013, I believe.

Do you know if this is now allowed? Because it hadn't been for a looooong time.

Thanks!

NO they did not.

But.....

Their screening process leaves something to be desired and people have slipped theirs in.

Its frustrating because they sell like wildfire, but its not worth the risk of getting your account blocked.

I write "pure incest" for SW, but I also have a "step re-write" for all my titles and that goes on amazon.

The think that makes me laugh that many of the "step" stories there mention "step" in the first paragraph then the rest of the book its "mom. mommy. mama" and its okay, cause they said it once and covered amazon's ass.

 

[glynndah]

I thought those were Merry Pason books.

Oh, I figured those books were still illegal. After all, what's the fun in reading something "safe"?