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[kiyakotari]

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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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[doll-paparazzi.livejournal.com]

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.

[sayashaw.livejournal.com]

As I understand it, if you know the name of the book and/or author you can look them up, but a lot of books have been pulled from the amazon ranking system and if you are looking up just general subjects (I saw an article in the PI that had a screen shot of what they got when they typed in Homosexuality as a book subject and it was terrifying) it's rather scewed

[doll-paparazzi.livejournal.com]

That's really fucking lame.

Amazon is really odd in how they do things in general. Their search engine is the biggest piece of shit bar none.