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Kindlerotica: The strange but inevitable rise of e-reader pornography

By Alliance Alert

James Ledbetter writing at Slate: "There's no point in dancing around it: Amazon is distributing men's erotic fiction, and its bargain-basement Kindle pricing?in many cases, this material, too, is given away for free?means that some of it shows up on 'best-seller' lists . . . How comfortable is Amazon with being identified with this material? There are thousands of pornography sites on the Web (paid and free), and while you can't access them without some kind of device and software, you're not pointed toward them in any meaningful way. The Kindle, however, pushes Amazon over the line from mere enabler of erotica to promoter and producer."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on September 29, 2010 (boomark / email).