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  Led By PayPal, Smashwords Updates Erotica Rules

  690 readersDigital publishing site Smashwords has updated its policy, requiring certain restrictions to erotica content published on its site, because of pressure from PayPal. Mark Coker, founder of Smashwords, explains the new terms in a letter posted on the site: “…we are modifying our Terms of Service to clarify our policies regarding erotic fiction that contains bestiality,

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  Smashwords Removes Censorship Policy, Allows Erotica

  835 readersSmashwords is no longer censoring content from including rape, bestiality and incest. The site’s founder Mark Coker posted a new update in the PayPal censorship scandal on the Smashwords website last night explaining that the old policy has been reinstated. He wrote: “I met with PayPal this afternoon at their office in San Jose. They will soon

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  NCAC, ABFFE Fight PayPal On Book Censorship

  1077 readersThe National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC) and the American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression (ABFFE) is standing up to PayPal, who has recently been cutting off payments to digital booksellers that sell eBooks that include rape, incest and bestiality.  Last month, digital publishing site Smashwords updated its policy, requiring certain restrictions to erotica content published on

• Smashwords Hits 200,000 Titles

  146 readers Self-publishing platform Smashwords has now published 200,000 ebooks by indie authors, founder and CEO Mark Coker told Digital Book World. When we sat down with Coker for a wide-ranging interview in May 2012, the company had published about 121,000 titles. The Los Gatos, Calif.-based firm was founded in 2008 after Coker found it difficult to self-publish

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  Smashwords: Over 5 Billion Self-Published Words

  745 readersLast week, Mark Coker, the CEO of Smashwords made an unexpected post to the company blog, an update that stunned its readers: Smashwords on your tab “Smashwords has now had a stunning five billion words uploaded to the site.” A GoodeReader website reporter caught a moment with Coker and discussed about this staggering figure with the Smashwords

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  Kobo Now Accepts Paypal

  3257 readersKobo has just added another payment option to its ebookstore. Along with Visa, Mastercard, your immortal soul, or Gift Cards, Kobo now accepts Paypal, the payment processor of last resort. Kobo customers can now buy any of 2.4 million eBooks sold by Kobo and pay with their existing Paypal account. This does away with the need

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  PayPal defends, NCAC condemns erotica publishing restriction

  1285 readersPerhaps feeling a bit stung by the storm of criticism brought down by its decision to insist e-book sellers pull specific types of erotica, PayPal’s Director of Communications Anuj Nayar posted an explanation on the company’s blog, explaining that unlike a number of other payment services, it does allow its service to be used for

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  PayPal revised policies to allow legal fiction

  1166 readers 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

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  PayPal Lifts Censorship Ban

  953 readersAfter threatening to close the accounts of online booksellers who sell content that includes rape, incest and bestiality, PayPal has rescinded its appeal. The eBay owned payments processing company will now allow sites including Smashwords to sell content without being subject to censorship. The National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC), an organization who along with the Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression

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  Smashwords CEO Mark Coker: Indie Authors Need to Become Great Publishers

  456 readers By Jeremy Greenfield, Editorial Director, Digital Book World, @JDGsaid A decade ago, it would have been unthinkable for an author to self-publish their own work and distribute it to half a dozen of the leading bookstores. Today, tens of thousands of people are doing it. How things have changed. One of the people responsible for this revolution in publishing