WTF, Amazon?

[clarentine]

Take a look at this: http://markprobst.livejournal.com/15293.html

If I understand correctly, it seems that Amazon has stripped the sales rankings from a wide swath of titles available on that site - and the unifying feature of those titles affected is that they relate to homosexuality. In the comment threads on the above page, there's indication that the erotica field has been struck, as well; that the striking of data extends to academic studies of homosexuality; and that, for some odd reason those titles that are categorized lesbian apparently have not been affected.

Further to which categories are being blanked: http://community.livejournal.com/meta_writer/11992.html

Comments being tracked on Twitter at #amazonfail.

Raise the roof, folks. Make sure no one tries this shit ever again.

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ETA: jonquil's comments are worth reading, as usual: http://jonquil.livejournal.com/823622.html

Comments

[txanne.livejournal.com]

Lesbian titles are also affected--Ellen DeGeneres' autobiography and "Heather Has Two Mommies" are the ones I can think of right now.

EDIT: Also Heather Corinna's book.

[clarentine]

I love it that the academic stuff is also blacklisted; I bet most of those folks are completely croggled.

And do I understand that the "error" has been "fixed," now?

[txanne.livejournal.com]

I went and did other stuff--but for a while there, Foucault's _History of Sexuality_ was de-listed. Obviously nobody at Amazon has ever actually read the thing, if they think people will be either jollificated or scandalized thereby!