Kobo

To address the rumors going around about Kobo removing self-publishing authors and their books from the site. I've heard many who think they're taking titles down just because they are self-pubbed authors. Some bad people have uploaded books against the rules. So they are going through and checking them. That's it.

This is what they are doing. Notice the parts in bold.

1.       We are removing titles in question from the Kobo platform.

2.       We are quarantining and reviewing titles to ensure that compliance to our policies is met by all authors and publishers. We will ensure that content meeting the policy is made available online as soon as possible.

3.       We are reviewing our policies and procedures to implement safeguards that will ensure this situation does not happen in the future.

We are working hard to get back to business as usual, as quickly as possible. We appreciate your patience and understanding in this matter.

Our goal at Kobo is not to censor material; we support freedom of expression. Further, we want to protect the reputation of self-publishing as a whole. You have our promise that we will do all we can to ensure the exceptions that have caused this current situation will not have a lasting effect on what is an exciting new channel that connects Readers to a wealth of books. 

Courtesy of Mark Lefebvre, Director, Kobo Writing Life.