Flap Over ‘obscene’e-books

PayPal, the online payments arm of eBay, has sparked a furor in the publishing world by asking some e-book distributors to ban books that contain “obscene” themes including rape, bestiality or incest. PayPal sent an e-mail on Feb. 18 to Mark Coker, founder of e-book publisher and distributor Smashwords, saying...

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