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

White-Out Rage.

[7veilsphaedra.livejournal.com]

I had a conversation in someone else's LJ about this, and I don't know if I ever want to deal with Amazon again, even if they stop lying about their screw up and bigotry, and apologize and re-commit to free expression. I see this sort of censorship as one of the prerogatives (in the worst possible meaning of the word) of companies which grow too damned big for the rest of us.

There isn't a more compelling argument for resisting the allocation of power to a single company.