42 Publishers’ and Presses’ Submission Policies, and 16 Payment Service Policies Examined UPDATED: 4/4/12 Fellow Writers and Readers, You’ll notice on the menu bar two new options “Payment Services” and “Publishers/Presses”. These are lists that, with your help, will become valuable resources to our community, for those seeking places to publish and ways...
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Excuse me if I don’t celebrate. PayPal is backpedalling because it got caught trying to prevent the sale of legal fiction. Many authors have lost days protesting this, days they could have spent writing fiction. My e-books are no longer visible on All Romance ebooks unless you log in. I learned Monday that another...
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Not a heck of a lot new in the article, but coverage by the WSJ is nothing to sneeze at. PayPal, the leading electronic-payments company, said in a March 8 blog post that it wouldn’t allow its service “to be used to purchase material focused on rape, incest or bestiality.” The company said that...
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The announcement on Paypal’s blog of their clarified Terms of Service – restrictions only apply to books containing images, these will be considered on a case by case basis. Read the full announcement here: https://www.thepaypalblog.com/2012/03/update-paypal%E2%80%99s-acceptable-use-policy/
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However this situation turns out, no matter what PayPal decides, I hope that we have learned that the world has changed significantly since the 1st and 4th Amendments were the law of the land and since the Miller Test was the one by which obscenity was judged. The digital age, the web, and a...
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There is some tentative good news on the Smashwords front: “March 12, 2012 – PayPal update: I met with PayPal this afternoon at their office in San Jose. They will soon announce revised content policies that I expect will please the Smashwords community. Effective immediately, we are returning our Terms of Service to back...
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A week after the PayPal back-down, Selena Kitt is still finding eBook stores in financial exile: “So if the right hand didn’t know what the left hand was doing...
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The announcement on Paypal’s blog of their clarified Terms of Service – restrictions only apply to books containing images, these will be considered on a case by case basis....
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“I don’t think it likely that PayPal will reconsider and rescind their actions in the short term; corporate bodies don’t like admitting that they were wrong, nor do they...
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“As both a reader and writer of erotica, the closure of outlets where I can access and/or sell stories designed to arouse the mind, and the body is a...
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I love this woman. She doesn’t pull any punches – no how, no way. It’s long and it’s very detailed, but if you care about the issues, you will...
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Behind the scenes, a lot of small publishers have been working their asses off trying to find alternatives to PayPal. In truth, no matter whether PayPal changes its policy...
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