Amazon's latest Kindle deletion: erotic, incest-themed fiction
Amazon may be in the process of stirring up some more trouble for itself thanks to reports that the company is deleting certain kinds of erotica from both the online store and users’ devices. The erotica in question is controversial: it talks about certain acts of incest. Judging from Amazon’s most recent bouts with book “censorship,” users who have already paid for the deleted content are likely to get fired up. Self-published author Selena Kitt was first notified that the print version of one of her fiction books violated Amazon’s content guidelines last week, followed by the unceremonious removal of two more offerings from the Kindle store. After noticing that the three books that Amazon singled out were all “erotic incest fantasy fiction,” she found at least three other authors whose incest-themed erotica had been removed from Amazon, followed by a Kindle support thread full of even more names.
