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In the last few days, there's been some viral giggling on Twitter and elsewhere about the 'Dinosaur Erotica' genre, which turns out to be a thing (who knew?) on Kindle. Thriller writer Jeremy Duns had a click through the 'People Also Bought' links and found himself disappearing down a rabbit-hole of rather dodgier material. There's a writeup over here at Kernel magazine.
The sort of thing we're talking about is very grimy incest porn - I won't repeat any of the titles here at the roundtable, but Kernel lists some of the titles and descriptions. It's the kind of stuff that would appear to violate Amazon's content guidelines (though they tend to try to sidestep them.) Since the Kernel article went up, Amazon have quietly removed hundreds of Kindle Editions from sale.
To me, this highlights the problems Amazon seem to have in moderating the products they have on sale. Clearly they can't pre-vet everything; but this means this sort of thing will just go on and on.
The sort of thing we're talking about is very grimy incest porn - I won't repeat any of the titles here at the roundtable, but Kernel lists some of the titles and descriptions. It's the kind of stuff that would appear to violate Amazon's content guidelines (though they tend to try to sidestep them.) Since the Kernel article went up, Amazon have quietly removed hundreds of Kindle Editions from sale.
To me, this highlights the problems Amazon seem to have in moderating the products they have on sale. Clearly they can't pre-vet everything; but this means this sort of thing will just go on and on.