An Interesting Development

One thing I dislike about e-book distribution through certain distributors is they put your content on hold and port it slowly into their databases. Right now my experiment is showing great progress on B&N Pubit, but I've hit a snag with phase two. It seems B&N is holding "experiment part 2" captive and not making it live on the site. Then I got a strange little message from the B&N folks when we wrote to inquire about the status of experiment part 2.

"Please allow at least 72 hours for your titles to complete the upload process. If your wait is longer, please check your emails for an Account Review notice."

First - why would we be getting an account "review notice" unless the book violates their terms of service? This could be the case because one man's literature could be another's pornography and vice versa. However - I worked hard on these stories. They went through a real editing process and everything. They have real cover art, none of it lurid or sick. There is a genuine story there. It's not pornographic for the sake of being pornographic. Just sayin'. Not to mention the one prior to it didn't even raise a red flag and IMHO, the one they're holding is far tamer than its predecessor.

So that said - my little experiment may just cause me to loose my entire PubIt account. We'll see. If it does I'll be heralding their censorship policies all over the web. Especially if they refuse to remove ALL stories that have similar content (not just mine).