Do Amazon and B&N Scrub Taboo Titles from the Bestseller List?

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The e-reader is a beautiful mystery—the little lady sitting across from you at Starbucks or on the subway might be reading Chicken Soup for the Soul, the paddle scene in Fifty Shades...or, if she's a monster, Beastiality, the Kindle tale of a housewife f*cking her dog.

Yes, it turns out that Kindles and Nooks are ablaze with disgusting, disturbing titles about rape, incest, pedophilia and the aforementioned beastiality—and sales are so robust, B&N and Amazon have been known to scrub the likes of 9 Hot Taboo Family Sex Stories from their bestseller lists, reports the New York Post.

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With romance and erotica tipping the $1 billion mark in sales last year, book e-tailers may not be keen to outright ban the books in their dark underbellies, but simply hide the titles from visibility. "This spring, The Nolan Trilogy by Selena Kitt, which depicts wayward Catholic school girls in the 1950s, abruptly halted its quick ascent at No. 126" [on the B&N list], the author alleges.

B&N denies blocking taboo titles from its bestseller lists; no comment from Amazon, but the Post notes that a quick site search of the word "daddy" doesn't yield first results on children's books—but "Daddy daughter sex." Off to barf now.

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