Apple Now Rejecting Smashwords Erotica

[Zeb_Carter]

I went to my Smashwords dashboard and found that almost everyone of my ebooks with a Retailer Ticket attached to them. Each was for Objectionable Content.

And not just the incest p-incest ebooks, but everyone of my books almost without exception. A few don't, but I assume they just haven't gotten around to reviewing those.

Anyone else found this?

As for Apple not liking the content of my stories, fuck 'em, I could care less, they're a bunch of uptight assholes anyway. Smug son of a bitches.

 

[lovecraft68]

Actually Apple has not been accepting new incest works since Paypal tried to pull their stunt beginning of last year.

The only titles I have on there right now is BDSM, Group and a few other "general erotica" books. So far I haven't gotten any notification of rejections yet.

Honestly my sales there aren't all that great and they can go fuck themselves.

On a plus note Kobo put non erotic indy books back up and are supposedly re publishing erotica minus the incest, PI and rape stuff, but I hear they are going to do what amazon did and give us a chance to fix it.

which translates into the same content, but disguise it well so the hypocrites can pretend they aren't selling it and still sell it. But that's okay I'll make money off their games.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Actually Apple has not been accepting new incest works since Paypal tried to pull their stunt beginning of last year.

The only titles I have on there right now is BDSM, Group and a few other "general erotica" books. So far I haven't gotten any notification of rejections yet.

Honestly my sales there aren't all that great and they can go fuck themselves.

On a plus note Kobo put non erotic indy books back up and are supposedly re publishing erotica minus the incest, PI and rape stuff, but I hear they are going to do what amazon did and give us a chance to fix it.

which translates into the same content, but disguise it well so the hypocrites can pretend they aren't selling it and still sell it. But that's okay I'll make money off their games.

They hit all my incest, LW type storied, but let blatant ones like "Whore" alone...so far.

 

[lovecraft68]

They hit all my incest, LW type storied, but let blatant ones like "Whore" alone...so far.

So far Maybe they are going by cover first?

Apple's always been the most anal(pardon the pun) of the bigger e-book platforms anyway.

Who would have thought a company founded by a hippie would be so uptight?

 

[Zeb_Carter]

So far Maybe they are going by cover first?

Apple's always been the most anal(pardon the pun) of the bigger e-book platforms anyway.

Who would have thought a company founded by a hippie would be so uptight?

They have been trying to schmooze the big corporate types for ages to get their stuff in to the corporate world. Gates beat them to the punch and they have been playing catch up ever since.

Beside the hippy died and none of the other hippies he had as partners are left to run the company. Now they are run by the corporate types they have been schmoozing.

 

[R. Richard]

I also have Apple tickets. Some are for "objectional content." Fuck 'em. Others are for strange codes that I have no idea what they are objecting to.
You might try Taboo.

 

[Setanta84]

So far Maybe they are going by cover first?

Apple's always been the most anal(pardon the pun) of the bigger e-book platforms anyway.

Who would have thought a company founded by a hippie would be so uptight?

We're talking about a guy who did none of the actual technical work during the start-up phase and routinely misled and cheated the guy doing the actual work. (Also, the first thing he did when he came back to Apple was discontinue their corporate philanthropy program.)

Jobs wasn't a hippy. He was just a run-of-the-mill capitalist asshole who happened to experiment with psychedelic drugs and meditation.

 

[A_Little_Show]

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[lovecraft68]

And what exactly is wrong with hippies?

Nothing at all. My point is they are generally pretty open to everything and live and let live. So I find it ironic they have such tight ass content policies.

But compared to amazon Apple is downright ethical and at least they have the spine to actually ban something and not publicly declare a war on content then send us wink wink e-mails saying content is cool just don;t be so obvious.

 

[A_Little_Show]

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[laptopwriter]

Me too, and...

my book contained zero incest, just a few bad words. When I saw this post I checked and sure enough, my book was ticketed by Apple for content. Oh well, as others have said, fuck'em.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

I also have Apple tickets. Some are for "objectional content." Fuck 'em. Others are for strange codes that I have no idea what they are objecting to.
You might try Taboo.

There is a link in the ticket that will tell you what the codes mean.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

I respectfully suggest that you are projecting your own irrational emotions. You also have the history quite wrong. I've never understood Apple "hate". If you don't like the products and services, don't buy or use them. It's simple

When you hate an inanimate object or a corporation full of 10s of thousands of people, what exactly are you hating? Why invest the emotion? Why vitriol?

There are lots of reasons to dislike Apple's current and past business practices. There are lots of details about their products that I don't like. On the several occasions I spoke with Mr. Jobs, he certainly seemed to be an asshole. On one occasion, I was face to face talking with him in a hallway, and he started looking over my head and talking to the person behind me. (He was taller than he looked)

Apple screwed me over professionally several times…

I have real personal gripes, but I can't hate an inanimate object or an amorphous collection of people who come in all stripes.

And what exactly is wrong with hippies?

I don't hate Apple, I'm indifferent.

And Job's tried for years to break into the corporate work place, but Gates beat him to it.

Sorry to hear about you problems with Apple, but again, I'm indifferent.

I didn't say there was anything wrong with hippies. I knew many back in the day. Some never left the sixties is all.

 

[Boxlicker101]

They have been hassling me too, and some of the "tickets" are confusing. This one is pretty straightforward:

Retailer tickets for Eating Christine

Some of Smashwords' partners provide feedback to us in the form of 'tickets' from their Quality Assurance (QA) teams. Tickets regarding your book are listed below. Click here to learn how to resolve Apple's QA tickets.


Open Tickets



Apple Id: 1893889


Prohibited Explicit or Objectionable Content





open

Opened: 2012-12-28

Updated: 2012-12-28

Last shipped: 2012-12-09



2012-12-28

incest

With others, I don't know what their problems are:

Retailer tickets for Gym Teacher's Ultimatum

Some of Smashwords' partners provide feedback to us in the form of 'tickets' from their Quality Assurance (QA) teams. Tickets regarding your book are listed below. Click here to learn how to resolve Apple's QA tickets.


Open Tickets



Apple Id: 1893582


Incomplete/Inaccurate iBooks-Generated Table of Contents





open

Opened: 2012-12-28

Updated: 2012-12-28

Last shipped: 2012-12-21



2012-12-28

Missing page number in Functional ToC.

I have no idea what this is about.

 

[BuckyDuckman]

Seems as if Apple may be continuing Jobs' approach to objectionable material. From April 2010. Jobs tells people who want porn to buy Android:

http://techcrunch.com/2010/04/19/steve-jobs-android-porn/

 

[lovecraft68]

It just amazes me in this day and age where the average lady gaga video is just short of soft core porn that people are still getting riled up that there is a huge market for porn. Just look at that idiot Miley Cyrus, slutting it up and that is entertainment, but don't you try to sell or buy and erotica!

Just build adult bookstores into your book platform and be done with it. The whole thing is about the fact they seem concerned with what a bunch of moral majority dinks(who spend no money whatsoever in the first place) think of what a company sells.

E-bay sells adult material and screens it so well I won $10 off a guy 2 weeks ago because he bet me they didn't.

But what they do is have an adult verification set up that you have to log into and agree to the content every single time you go on the site.

So as you're looking on e-bay for baseball cards or whatever else you want there are thousands of adult auctions being hidden from you.

That is all any of these idiots especially amazon has to do. Then everyone is shopping for whatever they want and everyone makes out.

 

[R. Richard]

There is a link in the ticket that will tell you what the codes mean.

Yes, but my ticket code isn't in the list. I have messaged Smashwords and hope for a reply Monday.

 

[lovecraft68]

Yes, but my ticket code isn't in the list. I have messaged Smashwords and hope for a reply Monday.

I have not gotten any yet. But that could be because I opted all my PI titles out of there when I heard they were purging them over a year ago

Of the 20 or so books I have there none have explicit titles or lewd covers so maybe I'll slide by.

Who knows? What I know is on a good month I might get 30 sales there so I'm not going to sweat over them.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

I have this one...the links to my older stories go to smashwords, apple doesn't like that, they like them to shop a the iBooks store. But now they can't so I guess they'll have to go to smashwords to get it.

Competing Websites
Your book, and/or its description, should not contain references or links to another retailer. Such references and links provide a bad customer experience. Imagine reading a book in iBooks and being prompted buy book's sequel at Amazon when your favorite store is iBooks. Such messages and links will confuse your fans and it's also inconsiderate to the retailer. Apple is extra finicky when it comes to this. Apple doesn't want to see language that encourages their customers to shop elsewhere for ebooks. So, for example, "Buy my other books at Smashwords at [hyperlink]" or "Find this book at Smashwords at [hyperlink]" or "Visit my personal's website's ebook store to buy my book direct from me" or words to similar effect are not good and may cause them to reject it, but "Visit my Smashwords author profile at [hyperlink]" is fine, or generalized text such as, "Find my ebooks at better ebook retailers everywhere" is fine. Similarly, don't include text that encourages your fans to leave reviews at specific retailers such as Amazon. Instead, use generic text such as, "If you enjoyed my book, please leave a review at your favorite retailer."

What a bunch of dumbasses.

 

[lovecraft68]

I have this one...the links to my older stories go to smashwords, apple doesn't like that, they like them to shop a the iBooks store. But now they can't so I guess they'll have to go to smashwords to get it.



What a bunch of dumbasses.

Actually doesn't every book we publish through smashwords have that smashwords copyright paragraph in them?

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Now I'm wondering how to get rid of the tickets or will they just hang around forever, because I have no plans to change anything. At all. On smashwords or on apple. None. Nada.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Actually doesn't every book we publish through smashwords have that smashwords copyright paragraph in them?

Yes they do and if that is what they were talking about that was the only book I received that type of ticket on. I must have really pissed off the person tasked with checking that particular book.

 

[R. Richard]

I have this one...the links to my older stories go to smashwords, apple doesn't like that, they like them to shop a the iBooks store. But now they can't so I guess they'll have to go to smashwords to get it.

""Visit my Smashwords author profile at [hyperlink]" is fine, or generalized text such as, "Find my ebooks at better ebook retailers everywhere" is fine."

 

[R. Richard]

I finally got a reply to my e-mail to Smashwords. One of my stories is under 3,000 words and apparently Apple doesn't like that. The other incomprehensible ticket was apparently because Apple didn't like my cover for The Forest. The cover in question features a rear view of a nude woman walking through a forest, with none of the girl bits visible and even the butt crack redacted.
My response to Apple is a big FUQ. (FU is pronounced 'fuh.' Q is pronounced 'Q'.)

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Got one on a story in my non-erotic stuff. They didn't like the fact the links to stories were in the front of the book, so I just re-posted it with that page at the end of the book like the rest. Tight ass bitches.

And besides, I don't publish my books at the Apple Store, I publish my book at Smashwords. Then Smashwords run them through the mill pushes them out to Apple and other sites.