The Pandora's Box of Erotica

I find it a bit difficult to articulate my thoughts about the recent events where Amazon, Kobo and other retailers selling erotica got complaints and tore down all the indie publishers books down.

Even Luke's Tale: A STORY OF UNCONDITIONAL LOVE got torn down. I suspect they were thinking unconditional "love" -- as in sex with animals. Hey, it has a dog on the cover, it MUST be about bestiality!! Wow, get your minds out of the gutter!

It's the music industry, the film producers and the Serial TV writers industry all over again.

But I have a different take. This is an opportunity. 

It opens the doors to storytellers and an opportunity for marketers to do as indie musicians and indie film makers are doing.

People are incredibly micro-minded in this macro world. What I mean is, people who are interested in niches are able to find them. People have this whole world of the internet to search.

Those who want to live life by drinking from the fire-hose of the internet have their wish. Yet others wanting to find their "thing", their niche, have an easier time of it.

The good think about the niche is people want their niche to be small enough to know everything yet large enough to never run out of material.

More micro-publishers are going to pop-up, like Troll River Publications. And we will find our audience.

These micro-publishers will find a niche in celebrating and marketing books.

This is their chance to rise and make a living doing what they want to do. This book tear-down mishap isn't going to force indies out, the indie spirit is hard to kill.

Indies will find a way. They always have.

Indies are waking up to believing they are Small Businesses and Small Business is agile, creative, innovative. We will find a way.

I'm proud to be a indie publisher. And I mean a publisher who publishes others books, not just my own, but stories I love and believe in. I'm at the stage where publishers began. I don't see this banning of books as such a bad thing. It clears my mind to action.

I like how Nate Hoffelder asked: "Now might be a good time for indie authors to go completely indie and start supporting the truly indie ebookstore platforms like Gumroad, Indiro, and others." 

He's got a great article on the subject. It's like anything else. What I think this all equates to are people who fear the world. When you fear the world, you make everything a fear tactic.

ACTION ITEM: It might be time to sell your books through your website. I've got a plan in the works for TRP. Go ahead, ask me what it is.

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