Wait a minute. A distributor has that authority? *Sue snickers to self.* Of course they don't. What's that? You didn't know that Smashwords is only a distributor? Well they say so on their site. "We are not a publisher." So if they aren't a publisher and if you think an author's work that they're distributing needs to be censored, you . . . um . . . should contact the publisher or, in the case of self-published material, contact the author. Let's see, Paypal is your one-stop shop for transactions. Smashwords offers anyone who can type something into a computer a way to distribute. Welcome to the mixed-up and whacky world of publishing!Reeeallly paypal? Really?
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Smashwords to Censor Authors?
Wait a minute. A distributor has that authority? *Sue snickers to self.* Of course they don't. What's that? You didn't know that Smashwords is only a distributor? Well they say so on their site. "We are not a publisher." So if they aren't a publisher and if you think an author's work that they're distributing needs to be censored, you . . . um . . . should contact the publisher or, in the case of self-published material, contact the author. Let's see, Paypal is your one-stop shop for transactions. Smashwords offers anyone who can type something into a computer a way to distribute. Welcome to the mixed-up and whacky world of publishing!Reeeallly paypal? Really?