Failing the Amazon way
Apr. 13th, 2009 01:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
louiseluxWow, what utter crap from Amazon. It's been classifying anything with a GLBT theme as 'adult' and removing it from sales rankings, meaning that it doesn't show up in searches and making the books impossible to find on site wide searches.
Details here: In consideration of our entire customer base, we exclude "adult" material from appearing in some searches and best seller lists.
Amazon is now saying that this was a 'glitch'. Right. Why a glitch is not a glitch
Its 'adult' classification somehow failed to include materials such as '50 years of Playboy Centrefolds' and 'Candy Girl: A Year in the Life of an Unlikely Stripper'. More here
Jezebel.com is keeping lists on which books do and do not keep their sales rankings: Queer theory books, books on coming out, and feminism books lose their rankings, but A Parent's Guide To Preventing Homosexuality gets to keep its rank?
Amazon rank
In conclusion, fuck off Amazon.
Details here: In consideration of our entire customer base, we exclude "adult" material from appearing in some searches and best seller lists.
Amazon is now saying that this was a 'glitch'. Right. Why a glitch is not a glitch
Its 'adult' classification somehow failed to include materials such as '50 years of Playboy Centrefolds' and 'Candy Girl: A Year in the Life of an Unlikely Stripper'. More here
Jezebel.com is keeping lists on which books do and do not keep their sales rankings: Queer theory books, books on coming out, and feminism books lose their rankings, but A Parent's Guide To Preventing Homosexuality gets to keep its rank?
Amazon rank
In conclusion, fuck off Amazon.