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Gonad

DON'T FUCK WITH MY TITLE BITCH
This thread is devoted to the whole Amazon thing that came to light today. Wowzers! My guess is that this entire problem is resolved one way or another BY Tuesday.
 
Look up "Amazon Rank" or "AmazonFail." Somehow, a ton of gay-themed books got labeled "adult" and had their sales ranks removed. Which means they show up at the bottom of the pile on searches, since results are ordered by sales rank.
 
There were too many good links; I couldn't make up my mind to pick just one or some.
 
Deranking of erotic, LGBT, feminist, progressive and sex-positive content

On April 12, 2009, it was revealed via Twitter under the tag "#amazonfail", that some erotic, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, feminist and progressive books were being excluded from Amazon's sales rankings.[87] Various books and media were flagged as "Adult content" (including children's books, self-help books, non-fiction, and non-explicit fiction), with the result that works by established authors like E. M. Forster, Gore Vidal, Jeanette Winterson and D. H. Lawrence were now unranked.[88]

The change first received publicity on the blog of author Mark R. Probst, who reproduced an e-mail from Amazon customer service describing a policy of de-ranking "adult" material.[87][88] However, Amazon later said that there was no policy of de-ranking LGBT material, and blamed the change first on a "glitch"[89] and then on "an embarrassing and ham-fisted cataloging error" that had affected 57,310 books.[90]


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon...inist.2C_progressive_and_sex-positive_content
 
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