Wendy: The rally cry amongst authors and fans of ebooks has long been "they're good enough for New York publishing, but not homogenized enough for the big publishing zeitgeist". Or words to that effect. Whether that's true or not continues to be hotly debated; what is clear, however, is that in delivering an ever increasingly erotic product to hungry readers, epublishers have led the way into steamier and steamier territory. With the marketplace for erotica and erotic romance identified and demand skyrocketing, mainstream publishers can't create super hot imprints fast enough. So, what about the writers who turn out that erotic product? As long as the behemoths are benefiting from the demand created by online presses, they might as well reap the authors of ebooks as well.
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Erotica or erotic romance: that is the question. All playing hard and fast with Hamlet aside, there are a lot questions, still, about what erotic romance is, where the boundary between romance and erotic romance is, and where then the dividing line between erotic romance and erotica exists. Questions abound; definitive answers, do not. Divisions, categories and labels create a slippery slope for who gets to decide what fiction belongs where. Does Reader A’s opinion supersede Reader B’s if they don’t agree on what level of sexuality is too much for a simple romance label or what level isn’t enough for an erotic tag? It’s a quagmire for certain, one that Black Lace has stepped into with its re-release of Pamela Rochford’s 1997 title Dangerous Consequences.
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