February Recap As many of you saw from my blog/FA journal, I had a little problem with Amazon in February. Here’s the blog post I wrote about it: http://kyellgold.com/wpblog/2013/02/15/bridges-is-back-on-amazon/ To summarize: Amazon removed “Bridges” from the Kindle store due to two illustrations (I am speculating) which they said violated their terms of service. The TOS in question read basically that I agreed not to upload anything that was pornography, offensive or hard-core material with graphic depictions of sexuality, or anything they found offensive. So I told them a little about “Bridges,” then went through point by point and explained why I didn’t think it was in violation of that agreement. For the last one, I said “the only reasonable way I can estimate what you find offensive is to look at what else you sell,” and I pointed them to Maiden Rose, a yaoi manga whose reviews praise its “lack of censorship” and warn of “anatomy and bodily fluids on full display.” For a bonus, a side comic portrays the characters as animal people. I respectfully said, look, if you tell my why this is okay but “Bridges” isn’t, I will abide by that, but I need to know so that I can continue to observe these rules in the future. I said I understood how hard it was to police billions of books across their store and that I hoped they’d put “Bridges” back up. And that’s exactly what they did. So it all worked out well, and honestly, “Bridges” is probably the most explicit thing I’ve got on the Kindle store, both in terms of text and illos, so it’s nice to have a letter from Amazon saying, “this is cool.”
March 2013 Dispatch
March 2013 Dispatch
March 2013 Dispatch
February Recap As many of you saw from my blog/FA journal, I had a little problem with Amazon in February. Here’s the blog post I wrote about it: http://kyellgold.com/wpblog/2013/02/15/bridges-is-back-on-amazon/ To summarize: Amazon removed “Bridges” from the Kindle store due to two illustrations (I am speculating) which they said violated their terms of service. The TOS in question read basically that I agreed not to upload anything that was pornography, offensive or hard-core material with graphic depictions of sexuality, or anything they found offensive. So I told them a little about “Bridges,” then went through point by point and explained why I didn’t think it was in violation of that agreement. For the last one, I said “the only reasonable way I can estimate what you find offensive is to look at what else you sell,” and I pointed them to Maiden Rose, a yaoi manga whose reviews praise its “lack of censorship” and warn of “anatomy and bodily fluids on full display.” For a bonus, a side comic portrays the characters as animal people. I respectfully said, look, if you tell my why this is okay but “Bridges” isn’t, I will abide by that, but I need to know so that I can continue to observe these rules in the future. I said I understood how hard it was to police billions of books across their store and that I hoped they’d put “Bridges” back up. And that’s exactly what they did. So it all worked out well, and honestly, “Bridges” is probably the most explicit thing I’ve got on the Kindle store, both in terms of text and illos, so it’s nice to have a letter from Amazon saying, “this is cool.”