LOL.
Oh, well. Here I go bein' all picky and stuff again. Folks, there's a big difference between what most of us think of (okay, what I think of) as porn and the Erotic Romance stuff being published online. Well, maybe more of a spectrum than a difference...
Anyway, many of the e-books I've seen and read are fairly close to "standard" romance and fantasy novels, just with an "open bedroom door" approach to the sex between characters. While it's true that some of them feature varying degrees of BDSM, m/m, m/m/f, m/f/f, etc. there is typically actual plot and character development both in and out of the bedroom. For anyone who isn't aware, porn (particularly of the "gonzo", "reality" style) totally gives the finger to notions of plot and character development.
Puts soapbox away and goes to algebra class at the local community college
Sorry to be picky about this, westlake, but the original blogger in question was actually correct. If you look at what you included in your post, you'll see that Peter Smith specifically referred to
...the top 10 bestsellers under the 'Multiformat' category...
The list he's talking about can be found at Fictionwise eBooks: Multiformat eBooks. That's the same link used in the original blog post Salacious content driving the adoption of ebooks? Under multiformat, 6 of the 10 listed are Erotica/Romance, 3 others are listed as Erotica, Erotica/Fantasy and Erotica/Dark Fantasy and #2 is Dark Fantasy/Fantasy.
I can see where the person who posted on this page mistakenly referred to
top 10 Fictionwise bestsellers
which is where the water got muddied. I just wanted to try to "un-muddy" it because the author quoted in Smith's original post has been a close friend for over 20 years and I've read and enjoyed all of her stuff.
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Anyway, many of the e-books I've seen and read are fairly close to "standard" romance and fantasy novels, just with an "open bedroom door" approach to the sex between characters. While it's true that some of them feature varying degrees of BDSM, m/m, m/m/f, m/f/f, etc. there is typically actual plot and character development both in and out of the bedroom. For anyone who isn't aware, porn (particularly of the "gonzo", "reality" style) totally gives the finger to notions of plot and character development.
Puts soapbox away and goes to algebra class at the local community college
The list he's talking about can be found at Fictionwise eBooks: Multiformat eBooks. That's the same link used in the original blog post Salacious content driving the adoption of ebooks? Under multiformat, 6 of the 10 listed are Erotica/Romance, 3 others are listed as Erotica, Erotica/Fantasy and Erotica/Dark Fantasy and #2 is Dark Fantasy/Fantasy.
I can see where the person who posted on this page mistakenly referred to
top 10 Fictionwise bestsellers
which is where the water got muddied. I just wanted to try to "un-muddy" it because the author quoted in Smith's original post has been a close friend for over 20 years and I've read and enjoyed all of her stuff.