Heh...you said "coming"...

Ah, the joy of unrealistic fantasies. Only in pornotopia would someone enjoy that; a real woman would rather go to prison than put up with that.

Rule #34, wasn't it?

There's pictorial porn for the Kindle, too, which is insanely stupid. Low-res 16-bit black and white pictures. Truly ridiculous.

Felicia Day has already revealed her voluminous romance-porn habit: http://feliciaday.com/blog/kindle-oh-kin… There's a reason they've added password protection to those things.

I was talking to my brother about how getting a kindle has changed his reading habits and he said that it's lowered the bar for what he's willing to read. Before he had a kindle it was easy to put a heady literature book in his bag as he was headed out and then he was stuck reading it until he had an opportunity to get something else if it didn't grab him.

Now if something doesn't grab him he just buys something else. He said it tends to be more about instant gratification and what he wants to read right this moment instead of reading books he feels like he should be reading.

This is just the next logical step. I'm not sure if he's gotten to the stage stage of getting smut yet (who knows?), but if this is a common path for readers to go down when they switch to e-reader, this conclusion should not be surprising.

I'm betting that most of the titles selling well on e-readers are more Felicia Day's thing than the one described above. Romance publishers and readers are getting heavily into the ebooks, not least because nobody gives us funny looks for reading on a Kindle, Nook, or iPad. At least, not in Seattle.

So Kindle is the new asstr.org?

Actually what I found most annoying about that article was the sentence that started that paragraph:

"But as you scroll down the list of Kindle offerings, you can't help but notice all of the steamy writing that seems to be targeted at men—an emotionally uncommitted genre which, if not exactly new, is associated with book publishing less commonly than with Penthouse Forum."

Of course he mentions later that "a small percentage of women might be attracted to this material."

He just answered his own question of why those books are selling so much on the Kindle - that dismissive attitude that if it's raunchy it must be geared towards men because Nice Girls don't like such material.

I much prefer my porn to be written down instead of on video. Buying them in the bookstore is annoying because you get Those Looks, so I do my shopping via Amazon. (Note: I actually owned The Office Slave. It's ... meh. It had its good parts and its bad.) Buying that stuff via the Kindle, you get rid of that whole annoying judgment crap.

Hahaha.

No, not surprising in the least. But it is funny. :D

What did they expect? What caused the explosion of the porn industry? Being able to view it at home, without the shamefaced walk out of a 1st Ave. jizzhut. It stands to reason that, once people realize they can read whatever they choose on the e-book readers without a lurid cover proclaiming their depravity to all and sundry, that they'll broaden their reading spectrum to include books they'd have previously had to hide inside a Wall Street Journal.