Sep 14 2007
Instead of labels
I have solved the problem of labeling books for potentially offensive content. Let us emulate the music industry, which has been laboring under the heavy mantle of censorship for years. Publish a “clean” version and the “parental advisory” version of every book!
Parental Advisory Version
“If the horny bastard likes to fuck as if his life depends on it, make it so.”
Clean Version
“If the horny bastard likes to fuck as if his life depends on it, make it so.”
Leave gaping holes like they do in the songs. Sell the clean copies with a pencil so the reader can fill in the blanks. It’ll be like Mad Libs! (”If the horny UPS driver likes to macarena as if his life depends on it, make it so!”)
Of course, this method also has its pitfalls. Not only the expense of two printings, but buyer dissatisfaction will be a consideration. I can’t tell you how pissed I get when I download a song and there are blank spots in it because I neglected to scroll over and make sure I was getting the explicit version. If I mistakenly purchased the version of a book with almost a tenth of 1 percent of its words missing, I wouldn’t be any happier about it.
Notice the I neglected and the I mistakenly. My responsibility entirely to make sure I’m getting what I want, but apparently not everyone feels that way. For some people, it takes a village to make a decision.
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