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Microstock Photography Forum - General => General Stock Discussion => Topic started by: Yay Images Billionaire on February 02, 2015, 00:29

Title: Nothing is safe from erotic fiction book covers
Post by: Yay Images Billionaire on February 02, 2015, 00:29
One of my goals was to get a photo on a book cover and I have nothing against it being erotic fiction. But this was just such an odd choice for an erotic fiction book cover.
http://www.amazon.com/Very-Naughty-Designer-Work-Book-ebook/dp/B00Q0NI1I4/ref=sr_1_12?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1422854749&sr=1-12&keywords=j.c.+cummings&pebp=1422854764033&peasin=B00Q0NI1I4 (http://www.amazon.com/Very-Naughty-Designer-Work-Book-ebook/dp/B00Q0NI1I4/ref=sr_1_12?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1422854749&sr=1-12&keywords=j.c.+cummings&pebp=1422854764033&peasin=B00Q0NI1I4)

It needs a title like "Herbalife Gone Wild" or something I think.
Title: Re: Nothing is safe from erotic fiction book covers
Post by: marthamarks on February 02, 2015, 01:44
What a hoot.  8)

Congrats on your first book cover!!!!!!!!
Title: Re: Nothing is safe from erotic fiction book covers
Post by: Semmick Photo on February 02, 2015, 02:13
I am waiting to see cabbage used as book cover for some fetisj erotic story. Ouchie!
Title: Re: Nothing is safe from erotic fiction book covers
Post by: MxR on February 02, 2015, 02:21
Uf... this girl ooks like a minor.
Title: Re: Nothing is safe from erotic fiction book covers
Post by: Yay Images Billionaire on February 02, 2015, 02:46
Quote from: MxR on February 02, 2015, 02:21
Uf... this girl ooks like a minor.
She was 20 at the time of this shoot.
Title: Re: Nothing is safe from erotic fiction book covers
Post by: Red Dove on February 02, 2015, 05:47
I read the "brief but titillating taste" and concluded I wouldn't pay a cent for that crap let alone three and a half dollars.

Nice pic, shame about the usage but there it is.
Title: Re: Nothing is safe from erotic fiction book covers
Post by: MarcvsTvllivs on February 02, 2015, 06:30
Gotta love the sickly green complexion of the naughty handyman on the other cover. Seems like the author might need the help of a designer, naughty or not.
Title: Re: Nothing is safe from erotic fiction book covers
Post by: marthamarks on February 02, 2015, 16:33
Quote from: MarcvsTvllivs on February 02, 2015, 06:30
Gotta love the sickly green complexion of the naughty handyman on the other cover. Seems like the author might need the help of a designer, naughty or not.

Reckon the goal was to make the viewer think of the Jolly Green Giant? Or Naughty Green Giant???
Title: Re: Nothing is safe from erotic fiction book covers
Post by: Yay Images Billionaire on February 02, 2015, 23:31
From the brief excerpt I read on the page, the writer's writing skills are not too far from his design skills.
Title: Re: Nothing is safe from erotic fiction book covers
Post by: wordplanet on February 02, 2015, 23:39
Should be naughty weight watchers ... thought this kind of use was prohibited or did you opt in at SS to the sensitive uses?
Title: Re: Nothing is safe from erotic fiction book covers
Post by: Ava Glass on February 04, 2015, 02:28
Amazon will filter certain kinds of book covers from the main search results. Usually these covers have implied nudity or are simply too overt for Amazon's liking. Therefore, people put tamer pictures on erotic books in order to avoid the filter.

There are hundreds of thousands of these books out there. The authors use cheap microstock because they write 2-3 of these stories a week. This is a hungry market, but they need cheap.

The agencies should create some kind of designation that retains a low price, but eliminates the confusion of whether an image can be used on an erotic book.

I'm sure authors don't want to end up like the ones Nicole Forni is suing.