{"id":2563,"date":"2012-02-27T11:18:45","date_gmt":"2012-02-27T16:18:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/?p=2563"},"modified":"2021-11-27T22:10:55","modified_gmt":"2021-11-28T03:10:55","slug":"beware-self-publishers-stuff-nook-kindle-comics-stores-with-porn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/2012\/02\/27\/beware-self-publishers-stuff-nook-kindle-comics-stores-with-porn\/","title":{"rendered":"Beware: Self-Publishers Stuff Nook, Kindle Comics Stores With Porn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcmag.com\/article2\/0,2817,2399892,00.asp#\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/326706-nook-tablet-and-kindle-fire.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Just remember: editors matter<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\">Rogue self-publishers have been stuffing the comics sections of the Nook and Kindle online stores with an entirely different kind of graphic novel, turning Barnes &amp; Noble&#8217;s flagship device briefly into a &#8220;Nookie Tablet.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">It&#8217;s a rule of the Internet. Stop editing and moderating, just for a minute, and everything will turn to porn and spam. That seems to have happened on the Nook, and, to a lesser extent, the Kindle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">Self-publishing has turned bookstore shelves from &#8220;seller cares&#8221; to &#8220;buyer beware,&#8221; with apparently no guarantees of quality or even that the content is what it says it is. With Barnes &amp; Noble and Amazon apparently abdicating any preemptive editorial control, it&#8217;s now a free-for-all online.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcmag.com\/article2\/0,2817,2399892,00.asp#\">Self-Publishers Stuff Nook, Kindle Comics Stores With Porn | News &amp; Opinion | PCMag.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a rule of the Internet. Stop editing and moderating, just for a minute, and everything will turn to porn and spam. That seems to have happened on the Nook, and, to a lesser extent, the Kindle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[589,567,568,335,587,495,588],"class_list":["post-2563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-did-you-know","tag-comics-freeforall","tag-editing","tag-editors","tag-kindle","tag-matters","tag-nook","tag-pornography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2563"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10060,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2563\/revisions\/10060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}