Amazon (apparently) knows what's good for their customers ...

I know we might have a few erotica writers, don't think we have any Dark erotica writers. But that's not the point. It always starts somewhere and then expand, so one day, this could be us 'light' writers ...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mara-whit … 97502.html

For most, there's not clear guidelines or criteria to what Amazon deem 'questionable'. But it also seems as if Amazon are simply reacting to complaints, and it only seems as if only one person need to have an issue for them to pull books ... I hope this isn't so.

A writer in another group I belong to, had this happened to him. His book (the 3rd one of a series) was on pre-order and doing really well, but was pulled by Amazon due to 'content'. He had to write humiliating emails and FB posts to explain the situation as he didn't know who had pre-ordered his latest book - Amazon's message to his potential (and existing) readers read more like he had something to feel ashamed about.

He has since moved so Smashwords, and his readers are following him over there in droves, more than he had pre-orders for, so the impact ended to be a blessing really. He's also planning to remove the first 2 books of the series from Amazon once his KU contract expires. The rest of the series will also not see the light on Amazon.

So it's not the end all. But it's still a concern that Amazon are now deeming themselves to be our Watchers.