Jacob Posts

That's a very disingenuous way of trying to move the goal posts. Not only is it clear that you and the Fakku publishing team have different definitions when it comes to what constitutes "non-vanilla" content, but when presented with a range of work published by Fakku in the last year that falls within their definition you say, "well actually, what I meant was you aren't publishing enough 'non-vanilla' content THAT I LIKE" while taking the opportunity to slam artists you personally don't feel measure up to your standards while claiming it's simply falling outside your "objective" definition of "non-vanilla."

Would it be great to see Sister Breeder and The Pink Album published in Fakku Books? Of course it would; I doubt you'd find a lot of people in this thread who would disagree on that front. But publishing is a difficult business; between the timeliness of the material, the legal work to get everyone to sign off on a publishing deal, and the sheer market forces, not everything will make it over: it's just a reality. Fakku is not beholden to tell you the specific reasons why you might not get that book you would really like, and part of the reason I enjoy participating in the discussion on this site around what might come over is because Jacob and the team are surprisingly open about the business, more so than I would expect for a publisher to be, especially of content of this nature.

Besides, at the end of the day "non-vanilla" content has the deck stacked against it. By the very definition, it's something that appeals to people who want something outside the relative norm of sexual fiction, and then there's the fact that some "non-vanilla" content runs into legal issues when trying to publish it outside of Japan (loli and shota feels like a gray area, whereas something like bestiality has a more strict legal restriction, for example). Just look at the never-ending saga that has been the physical release of Hanafuda for the kinds of issues Fakku can have with getting "non-vanilla" content published in book form.

I get it can be frustrating not seeing the kind of content you want released in the quantities you would like. I'm sure a good number of people on the site do have gripes here or there. But moving the goal posts when they reach out to you directly about this issue is not going to solve your problem. I don't have an easy solution other than attempting to get the community to invest in the content you want to see, because at the end of the day I would expect Fakku to mainly sell what people want to buy. And the fact that they are releasing more "non-vanilla" books (by their definition at least) means they are noticing a market that either did exist before or more likely wasn't buying as much as they are now, and it is paying off for them. I can only hope that Fakku's output of published "non-vanilla" content continues to increase or at the very least doesn't recede because I think variety is a net positive for the Fakku Books brand in the end.