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

[the_rck]

It's not just GLBT books, though they're extremely hard hit. From what I've read over at dearauthor.com (they had three or four entries on it the last I checked, so I'm not linking to a specific entry), a lot of mainstream het romances and romantica titles have been hit, too. There are several authors reporting the status of their own works, and a couple of people did broader searches and discovered that some entire lines of titles are hidden (Black Lace was mentioned specifically).

[louiselux.livejournal.com]

Bloody Amazon, this is just ridiculous and very worrying. I'm hoping they'll be able to give more than some half-arsed reason for this happening.

[daegaer.livejournal.com]

Also, apparently, various textbooks and books on disability and sexuality . . .

oursin, who is a SRS historian, notes some of her books are affected, some aren't, apparently randomly.