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What is up w/Amazon.com’s stripping of adult books’ sales rank?


I cannot sum up the #Amazonfail situation any better than this post at Lilith Saintcrow. Hattip to Deanna Zandt for the link to that post.

Does anyone have experience with what people are describing? What is your opinion of what’s happening?

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 9:20 pm April 12th, 2009 in Business, Culture, Ethics, Law, Media, Women, Writing 

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4 Responses to “What is up w/Amazon.com’s stripping of adult books’ sales rank?”

  1. 1 Dawno on April 12th, 2009 9:37 pm

    This is a good post to get some technical insight, Jill: http://www.digitalmedievalist.com/news/2009/04/amazon-rankings-reek-of-homophobia-and.html

  2. 2 Jill Miller Zimon on April 12th, 2009 9:44 pm

    Dawno. :) Warming my heart seeing your name and imagining the sparkly ears. :)

    Thanks for the link – the whole thing sounds totally farkhadt as we say.

  3. 3 Erica on April 13th, 2009 11:33 am

    One critical part of the Amazon glitch story seems to be when they say “it’s not a NEW policy” — it sounds like it’s a long-standing policy that was mostly kept quiet, and suddenly there’s a glitch that is getting it applied far more quickly.

    Or they’re just desperately spinning the whole thing, who knows :)

    Either way, I’ve never been a fan of Amazon, and now I’m certainly never going to use them again. Powells is my online bookseller of choice.

  4. 4 oengus on April 13th, 2009 8:08 pm

    Actually nothing is missing and or censored on the site, so is the whole thing then just hearsay? Changes in policy do not change back that fast do they? Glitches usually get resolved quickly don’t they? Forced them to change the policy back? Or drew attention to the glitch? If there even was one at all?

    Could it be the Amazon best seller that has them upset? Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto.

    http://www.amazon.com/Sexual-Wellness-Products/b?ie=UTF8&node=3777371

    Oh Amazon…your such a bastion of conservatism.

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