If they change the search filter to Kindle Store or Books, then a message appears saying that the results are adult content and they have to click through to see the product.
Amazon said that for them to bring the book back into the normal storefront, the cover would have to be modified to remove any bare nipples. In addition, the content of the book would have to be toned down.
This has yet to happen, but there was at least that threat. Note there is no such threat for Fifty Shades of Grey, which has made them a whole lot of cash. Correspondence mentioned them and the papers included photocopied pages from the proposed book. It appears the stories had been written specifically for an unnamed patron in the s, at a pay rate of one dollar per page, and were later published with a print run of just five copies in by Press of the Sunken Eye, prompting Herron to try to track down a surviving copy.
He did, and it was republished by Sky Blue Press on 20 October this year. I did not tinker with the contents — did not refine, cut, rearrange, change the phrasing, etc — but only tended to grammatical and spelling matters.
I want the reader to experience exactly what the mysterious collector, for whom Nin wrote at a dollar a page, did. Nin, who died in aged 73, was no stranger to brushes with prudishness. Facebook Twitter Pinterest. Topics Short stories. Reuse this content. Order by newest oldest recommendations. Show 25 25 50 All. Threads collapsed expanded unthreaded.
