Words by Sooz

Several days ago, PayPal came out with a revised version of its decision to ban certain categories of ebooks from the online marketplace. Instead of focusing on categories as a whole, the online payment processing company intends to focus on individual books that "contain child pornography, or e-books with text and obscene images of a rape, bestiality or incest." This should be considered a victory for the indie authors as PayPal seemingly intended to cause a disruption in the entire ebook world with the ramifications of its original decision affecting hundreds of authors and dozens of ebooks sites. This allows more legal fiction to flow in the marketplace. People should not be censored.

PayPal has decided to play moral police to the eBook publishing world, although this is not the first time the company has decided to stick its nose into other people's business. On Feb. 18., PayPal contacted  Smashwords and told them them to lose the porn or its account would be deactivated, according to Dear Author , a blog on romance books. According to a letter sent to Smashwords authors, the site's founder Mark Coker wrote: “I’ve had multiple conversations with PayPal over the last several days to better understand their requirements. Their team has been helpful, forthcoming and supportive of the Smashwords mission. I appreciate their willingness to engage in dialogue. Although they have tried their best to delineate their policies, gray areas remain. Their hot buttons are bestiality, rape-for-titillation, incest and underage erotica. “ Smashwords already deals with underage erotica. It doesn't allow underage characters in erotica even as bystanders. But these r...