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Kiyakotari ([personal profile] kiyakotari) wrote2009-04-12 05:22 pm
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This is disgusting. I can't believe they even included Foucault's History of Sexuality. Fuck you, Amazon.

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[identity profile] nagasvoice.livejournal.com 2009-04-13 12:37 am (UTC)(link)
I wouldn't be so ticked off if they were consistent, but no. Some pretty disgusting pron on eBooks and DVDs is still up, books on dogfighting and Playboy stuff is still listed. One person pointed out it might not be legal behavior in selling in Canada, either.

[identity profile] doll-paparazzi.livejournal.com 2009-04-13 12:44 am (UTC)(link)
You know... I just went to Amazon and typed in a friend of mine's name who write YA gay titles and it came right up. So, I don't know what the searches are excluding and what are including specifically. Are they pulling out older, obscure titles? Are they pulling out titles that aren't popular in general? What is it specifically are they pulling out, because remember this is one person's point of view.

I was trying to figure out how Mike's books are put into Amazon in general to see if he is YA general or if it's gay or what, but he mostly writes gay fiction.

Look up Michael Thomas Ford and then, tell me what you see. Because I am concerned if they are doing this, but I never trust these things 100% because the first name I plugged in came right up.

[identity profile] saintsavin.livejournal.com 2009-04-13 02:50 am (UTC)(link)
Disgusting: absolutely.

But, I'm honestly a little amused the staff at Amazon assumed NO ONE WOULD FIND OUT. There are no secrets for big corporations anymore. The documents. We has them.

[identity profile] lionhearts.livejournal.com 2009-04-13 04:47 am (UTC)(link)
I can believe this. What I can't believe is that they thought people would just kind of let it slide when they figured it out. Honestly, Amazon, what the hell?

I guess I just have to wonder... WHY? Who does this protect/spare/whatever it is they think they are doing? I'm so confused.

[identity profile] calalillith.livejournal.com 2009-04-13 05:05 am (UTC)(link)
What. The shit?

I used to love Amazon.. now I feel kind of.. used.

[identity profile] nagasvoice.livejournal.com 2009-04-13 05:12 am (UTC)(link)
More links and comments on massaging rankings here, along with some rude interchanges. Filtering and rankings matter because it affects sales by writers, particularly in more specialized genres like m/m romance, and those writers were *ticked*.
http://theferrett.livejournal.com/1259643.html
So was Hanne Blank, whose nofiction textbooks about topics in sexuality were also unranked, and many of her fellow "facts on sexuality" writers.
http://www.hanneblank.com/blog/2009/04/12/losing-my-ran/
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