We have our final agreement approved (three days early no less).
Anyone wishing to see it can now email noboundariespress@gmail.com — serious inquiries only. Please ask any questions you may have before requesting the agreement.
We are open to: Publishers looking for new homes for some of their books, indie/self-published authors and, of course, those who wish to contract with NBP as a publisher rather than a vendor.
Remember we DO have expenses and are one of the most reasonable publishers out there. No Boundaries Press had stated that our vendor percent would be NO MORE than 40%. With getting the legal end handled, we have decided on 25% (keep in mind that NBP also gets the legal end of issues as well).
We are set to go. Let’s turn this week around and start getting all these books back on the e-shelves.
Hey Kharisma, which titles are of this group of e-books that have been booted off places like Amazon? I’d like to read one, just to know if my own writing has gone over ‘the line’.
Right now NBP hasn’t had any pulled from anywhere. But we are prepared as some places are speaking of doing away with erotica completely.
[...] that BookStrand, All Romance eBooks, and Smashwords have deemed unacceptable for their stores. Contact information and details are here for authors who are [...]
I do have one question that you don’t mention here and I think it’s something that many would like to know before bombarding you with emails.
How would you be able to distribute these ebooks on your website and continue to accept payment for them through PayPal when many distributors and publishers have had their accounts blocked because of it?
Do you have a special agreement in place with PayPal/Visa/Mastercard that would allow you to do so or will you be distributing in some other way?
We’ve answered this in other emails we’ve received. We do still have the PayPal logo on site until I manage to get everything transferred over to our new method. We will no longer be using PayPal and have worked a way around the current issues.
Thank you for your response but it still doesn’t fully answer my question. You mention moving away from PayPal. I’m assuming that means you’ll be using another payment provider.
I’d like to quote Mark Coker’s latest response to this issue over at Smashwords:
https://www.smashwords.com/about/beta
I quote:
“It’s not so simple to just unplug PayPal. Their policy originates with the banks and credit card companies that power them, and if we want to continue accepting credit cards either with PayPal or any other payment provider, we need to understand from where this originates.”
With the assumption that you’ll be using another payment provider, that payment provider will also have to abide by these rules set by Visa/Mastercard simply because ALL payment providers accept credit cards as an industry standard. These restrictions doesn’t come directly from Paypal.
Thus my question of how you would be distributing the ebooks.
Yes, we understand that and have read various versions over and over again and know that NBP will eventually receive “that” email from PayPal.
In a business format, we’ve tried to keep it *under hat* as much as we can (knowing that it’s inevitable to keep others from following the same plan we’ve created). So, we’ve not released official *go around* information.
However, you can take a peek at the initial set up here: http://noboundariespressstore.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=36
[...] Moral Police? Forces E-Book Sellers To Remove Certain Erotica Content (Ingrid Lunden, TechCrunch) Agreements Are Complete–Indie Authors and Publishers — NBP as Vendor (also NBP) I Wasn’t Raped by a Guy Not My Dad, during which No Children and Animals Were Present [...]
I’d combed through GoogleCheckout’s TOS and ruled them out for a viable PayPal alternative due to “adult goods and services: …including literature..” being on their Unacceptable Product categories.
https://support.google.com/checkout/sell/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=75724
They do not seem to have any provision regarding virtual currency, though. (They do have a provision against “cash equivalents” but define it as meaning traveler’s checks, and other things of the like.)
You may need to switch your services to only using the point system if you wish to remain out of their scrutiny. (I am not a lawyer, but the language of their Unacceptable Product categories is fairly direct.)