Zivity will find an audience that appreciates erotica, but the big money is in trashier content.
"Publishers haven't really taken erotica seriously and have never had it on their books, " he said.
The ease of downloading to an e-reader is a huge factor in erotica's growth.
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Many of them will be displayed at the world's largest sex show, Erotica, this weekend at London's Olympia.
Eight of the top 10 bestselling novels last week were works of erotica.
It is expanding its erotica list this year from 48 books to 60.
WSJ: How Kindle, Nook and iPad Fuel Sales of Erotica for Women
HarperCollins is launching an e-book publishing arm focusing on erotica and erotic romance.
Then there are online networks that act like auction sites for people trading in drugs, erotica and other forbidden items.
Non-fiction sales also appear to be affected by the erotica trend, with sales of hardbacks down 16% year-on-year and paperbacks down 8%.
As women began to write erotica and post it online, demand grew.
WSJ: How Kindle, Nook and iPad Fuel Sales of Erotica for Women
In erotica, the digital portion is that high or higher, he says.
WSJ: How Kindle, Nook and iPad Fuel Sales of Erotica for Women
"This is an online market, " says Rachel Kramer Bussel, a writer of erotica and editor of the anthology "Best Bondage Erotica 2012, " from Cleis Press.
WSJ: How Kindle, Nook and iPad Fuel Sales of Erotica for Women
Content will be commissioned by editorial director Adam Nevill, who was the head of the UK's leading publisher for erotica for women Black Lace and Nexus.
Erotica here followed the taste of the Greek traditions, even if there is surprisingly little Attic pottery in Naples though plenty in other museums of Magna Graecia.
There are thousands of volumes of erotica for women on bookstore shelves, so it shouldn't come as a surprise that one of them occasionally breaks into the mainstream.
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Among Doubleday Direct's new and upcoming products are Venus (erotica for women), Black Expressions (for black families), Mango (for young women), Rhapsody (for romance) and a gay-and-lesbian club.
Erotica on the Mischief Books site is tagged with icons.
WSJ: How Kindle, Nook and iPad Fuel Sales of Erotica for Women
Citing the Islamic world's own traditions of erotica, Shi'a leaders in Lebanon are sanctioning the re-emergence of the traditional "muta", or pleasure marriage - as a form of legalised promiscuity.
After a brief interrogation the doctor concluded (and Wollheim overheard to his regret) that "His ignorance is complete, " though Wollheim been reading his father's small collection of erotica for years.
HarperCollins said it will launch titles including the vampire erotica novel Red Grow the Roses by Janine Ashbless, A Study in Shame by Lucy Salisbury and Kinky by Justine Elyot.
Mr Stone added erotica was now stealing sales from the rest of the book industry as publishers scrambled to take on new titles to make the most of the current boom.
In this particular scenario, MasterCard would not take action regarding the use of its cards and systems for the sale of lawful materials that seek to explore erotica content of this nature.
The romance genre encompassing a range of fiction types, from traditional romance to Christian romance, Amish romance and erotica makes up 17% of sales of adult fiction, says Brent Lewis, Harlequin's executive vice president for digital.
WSJ: How Kindle, Nook and iPad Fuel Sales of Erotica for Women
Nobody had to know that the gay-rights case of the century was actually about three or four men getting drunk in front of a television in a Harris County apartment decorated with bad James Dean erotica.
Erotica used to be difficult to find.
WSJ: How Kindle, Nook and iPad Fuel Sales of Erotica for Women
If you have read anything about gastronomy in the last decade, you have probably seen your share of what Slate called the I Ate at El Bulli piece, describing the experience with a level of detail usually reserved for high-class erotica.
This year over 500, 000 people flocked to take part in Europe's biggest homosexual spectacle, the Christopher Street Day Parade not to be confused with the city's yearly and mainly heterosexual Love Parade and its rivals, the Fuck Parade and the Erotica Carnival.
The result: LULU: Collages by Lulu de Kwiatkowski, published by Ammo Books, a series of colorful mash-ups featuring photos of kids playing in the beach, painted zebras and toucans and some Victorian erotica again varying backdrops of verdant jungles and lollipop-tree forests.
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