Failing the Amazon way

[louiselux]

Wow, 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.

Comments

[2metaldog.livejournal.com]

Saw a post that was supposing that this was something like what happened with strikethrough. That being a group of wingnuts was going through the listings on Amazon and flagging all the books they felt "damaging to the morale of people".

Personally, I don't quite buy that as I've seen posts from 2 different authors who questioned Amazon about why they were de-ranked and Amazon responded that it was their new policy.

In all, this just proves my long held point that Amazon is not worth your hard earned bucks.

[louiselux.livejournal.com]

Sigh. Yes, it does seem to have definitely been Amazon's policy. Whether they realised the full implications of it I don't know. I just hate it when companies that I had liked turn out to be shits.